Interlocking stories adapted by author Michel Tremblay's popular plays from life on the Plateau, a borough of Montreal. A young teenager gets pregnant accidentally and must find a way to get an abortion, nobody will know about. A drag-queen goes to a gala night at a gay club, unaware that he will be humiliated for some stupid tricks he played on the homosexual community. A gullible house lady invites her neighbors to help her glue trading stamps, but they have plans to rob and humiliate the poor woman and her household.