Xavier Dolan’s third feature film is a drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover. Laurence is a respected literature professor who decides to embark on the transition from man to woman in; however probing of identity this topic may seem, it is love that captures Dolan’s attention— the love Laurence maintains for Frédérique, who craves the arms of a man; the love Frédérique maintains for Laurence, though he can’t continue living life as anything other than a woman. Love that transforms dreary Montreal streets and bleak winter vistas with moments of magic— water flooding into a living room from a book of poetry, fluorescent clothes raining from the sky when the two reunite.