The Switch

Corporal Marc Leblanc, a highly skilled military sniper, leaves Afghanistan after being discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces. He returns to his childhood home, a peaceful corner of northern Ontario. He carries a letter detailing the health of his father, himself a veteran. Father and son, reunited, hide behind their silence, unable to express their emotions, unable to converse beyond mundane pleasantries, or to form lasting bonds with those around them. The Switch is a film about intergenerational trauma and the psychological struggle veterans face within themselves as a result of the atrocities they endure in combat—atrocities too horrific to share with ordinary people.