Synposis

We are in 1964. Martin Bishop is 18. Her recently deceased father gave him a good education, sent him high moral values​​, and inherited a farm in bankruptcy that the bank has entered.

Martin finds a job in the Northwest Territories on a construction site of a railway. The work pays well, but the foreman is a tyrant and the enormous task: we must build 52 miles of track in 52 days. On this site in the forest isolated from the rest of the world where it is impossible to escape, corruption is everywhere. The workers, all a little thieves, idiots and all flustered, do not dare complain about their conditions. All but Martin lost sheep among wolves. He asks questions and indignation of certain practices. What happens is the noble moral values ​​that his father sent him when he is victim of retaliation?
  

Adapted from a novel by Montreal's Trevor Ferguson, The Timekeeper is the first feature film in English by Louis Bélanger.