Karine Gonthier-Hyndman

So here he plays Stan, a fantasy novelist admitted to hospital with a coins flips chance of surviving cancer, he's told.

Karine Gonthier-Hyndman plays his partner, Benedicte, and it's also one of the last screen performances from the much-loved performer Marc Messier.

The trouble arrives in the next bed in Stan's hospital room.

Bilel Chegrani plays Darius, a young gunshot wound patient who's quite chatty for someone the doctors insist is in a coma.