Rosalie Richard is found, murdered and raped, at the foot of a cliff in the Magdalen Islands. The sordid crime wreaks havoc on the quiet life of Sergeant André Surprenant of the local Sûreté du Québec detachment. While the shy and quiet Surprenant starts the hunt for the killer, his marriage is crumbling, his teenage daughter rejects him, his psychologist is trying to help him overcome his phobias, and the Sûreté is trying to push him aside by bringing in an officer from Montreal, Detective Gingras, to lead the investigation.
| A film by | Gabriel Pelletier |
| A screenplay by | Marcel Beaulieu Gabriel Pelletier |
| A production by | Nicole Robert |
| Based on the novel by Jean Lemieux | «On finit toujours par payer» (Les éditions de la courte échelle) |
| Line Producer | Pierre Allard |
| Director of photography | Nicolas Bolduc, C.S.C. |
| Production Designer | Jean Babin |
| Editor | Glenn Berman |
| Costume Designer | Carmen Alie |
| Music - Original Score | Laurent Eyquem |
| Music - Original Song | Karkwa |
| Sound | Mario Auclair |
| National Distribution | Remstar Distribution |
| International Distribution | Les Films Séville Pictures |
| André Surprenant | Pierre-François Legendre |
| Geneviève Savoie | Brigitte Pogonat |
| Denis Gingras | Normand D'Amour |
| Rosalie Richard | Stéphanie Lapointe |
| Élise Morency | Pascale Bussières |
| Bernard Duval | Paul Doucet |
| Lieutenant Asselin | Michel Laperrière |
| Julien Cormier | Maxime Dumontier |
| McCann | Alexandre Goyette |
| Roméo Richard | Germain Houde |
| Majella Bourgeois | Sandrine Bisson |
| Évangéline | Isabelle Cyr |
| Albéni Thériault | Hugo Giroux |
| Maude Surprenant | Carla Turcotte |
| Martha Petitpas | Sandra Lecouteur |
| Émérentienne | Hélène Gaudet |
| Tête Plate | Dany Lapierre |
| Damien Lapierre | Sylvain Vigneau |
| Cornélius | Normand Lapierre |
| Hughes | Félix Painchaud |