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St-Come, Quebec, 1985. Comedian Marcel Lajoie was once the toast of Quebec popular entertainment, having run a few theaters in the province specializing in his own variety shows with a stock company, the most notable of those theaters being the summer-only La Grange a Marcel (translation: Marcel's Barn), the actual reconfigured barn on his rural property. The tides long turned on Marcel's fame, estranged from many of his friends and colleagues for the shabby way he treated them, whether it be his womanizing ways about which his wife Madeleine was probably well aware in they not having had sexual relations in quite some time, or screwing them financially. The one exception is Jerome, La Grange's stage manager who is now his loyal housekeeper. A few things happen simultaneously in Marcel's life which make him feel the need to resurrect the old company and put on a show in the barn, which might be easier said than done. Most initially hesitant, the old and now resurrected company includes drag queen Lady Moon, lounge pianist/singer Roger Boucher, and comedienne/singer Lucie. Roger encourages Marcel to bring back his and Madeleine's son Pedro, a clown/magician who fell out with his father after an on-stage incident, so Marcel believes that he will never agree to return. One new member to the company by association is Melanie, who works as a cashier at the local beer store and who, as an aspiring serious actress, generally denigrates such variety shows as being crass. Beyond the surface obstacles including whether this form of entertainment with Marcel at the helm will strike a chord with the public, a below-the-surface obstacle is the town's mayor/television host/banker, Stephane Granger, a narcissist who has ulterior motives for seeing the show fail. Also below the surface as an issue is the hidden reason that Stephane wants to see the show fail, the company discovering that as the reason Marcel resurrected the show as opposed to their belief of him wanting to rediscover the true friendship that once existed among them which might tear them apart forever this time.