This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK's assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life.

Dans les toilettes d'une gare montréalaise paralysée par une tempête de neige, Pierre-Paul surprend Chili, une jolie collégienne, un pistolet dans la bouche. «C'était le 12 du 12... est aussi un hommage à Pierre Mignot, le directeur photo dont la caméra saisit les visages et l'atmosphère avec une acuité particulière.»