The Noise of Engines

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.

Cast

Robert Naylor

as Alexandre

Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir

as Aðalbjörg

Naïla Rabel

as Laura

Marie-Thérèse Fortin

as Johanne

Alexandrine Agostini

as Directrice

Marc Beaupré

as Letellier

Maxime Genois

as Rémillard

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