In the middle of the night, in the Québec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.

Dans le petit village de Saint-Barnabé, au Québec, un jeune Noir démolit, en pleine nuit, la petite statuette d'un pêcheur noir qui décore la pelouse d'une dame âgée. La situation tourne rapidement au tragique.