Montreal. Many different lives, cultures and destinies cross in multicultural Mile End. Among them: Felix, a single atheist trying to deal with the death of his estranged father; and Meira, a mother and Hassidic Jew suffering under the traditions imposed on her by her husband. Chance unites these two souls, who are each in search of a way out and more than their present lives can offer.

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Felix et Meira is neither rom-com nor drama with a romantic plot. The only romance in this movie is the skeletal narrative used to bring two lost souls together by chance and have them try to find a different way of looking at life through the eyes of the other. However, as reflected by these apathetic characters, who try to get back in sync with their emotions without success, Maxime Giroux’s movie searches for meaning without really finding it. It has more luck with Meira, who is suffocating within a culture whose traditions stop her from blossoming, but the screenplay lacks power and seems content to just follow the banal path of its characters. All that’s left in the end is a vague feeling of ordinary pessimism about human relations, which has neither clarity nor subtlety.