A farmer decides to auction off his farm to help his daughter financially.

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Gaby works hard on the farm he inherited from his father in the middle of the Canadian countryside. Faced with the economic crisis that has forced many of his neighbors to sell, he struggles to raise his sheep. Until the day one of his two daughters, in the midst of divorce and out of money, asks him for help. Ready to sacrifice everything for her, Gaby decides to put the farm he has devoted his life to up for auction …

Styled like a cowboy with a face as soft as a lamb, Gabriel Arcand, brother of director Denys Arcand (Les Invasions barbares), infuses this second film by Sébastien Pilote with his quiet strength. By focusing on this stoic, ordinary hero who seems overly philosophical, this rough family drama remains dispassionate. The blame rests with an almost pathological modesty and too many silences, a result of trying too hard not to turn the movie into a melodrama. The effect of Le Démantèlement is icy, which is ironic given the gorgeous, autumnal Canadian countryside its filmed in.