Dérives is a contribution to the collective memory, where students, professors, activists, mothers, and a nurse question the legitimacy of police actions during the Printemps érable (Maple Spring) protests, and the role of media narratives that trivialize these actions. From 1990 to 2010, the student movement saw over 1,000 arrests. In just six months of 2012, this number tripled.

Dérives also reflects on the root causes of these escalations, which existed long before the student strike and continue to persist. Woven through the testimonies is a central question: are these abuses the result of a culture, fueled by political power, that only a public and independent inquiry could fully expose? Far from being isolated incidents, these socially toxic abuses and manipulations are symptomatic of deep institutional corruption.

This film is dedicated to those who were arrested and injured during the conflict.