Between Canada and Japan, among the most acute dissection of reality and the most hilarious surrealism, Apocalypse for Beginners is an endearing and intelligent romantic comedy about two friends who could become boyfriends if not because one of them is fully convinced
that the end of the world is coming.

The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the end of the world, always on a different date. When that day comes and nothing happens, another Randall goes crazy. In the summer of 1989 Randall Hope's mother, in an attempt to avert the impending apocalypse, he gets into his Lada and head west ... But the car breaks down in the small town of Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec where mother and daughter are left to await the apocalypse announced, while living on the premises of an antique shop of exotic animals.
The Bauermann family has been in the cement business for generations, but Mickey does not intend to continue the family tradition. For now spends every free second with Hope, the most extraordinary and intelligent girl who has known. Teenagers take refuge in the basement of Mickey, who is called the Bunker, from where they see through the small screen, how the twentieth century crumbles and becomes forever. But when the fate of Hope as a Randall is revealed by chance in a bowl of Chinese noodles, she feels that the only way to deal with the end of the world is facing him, he moves away from Mickey and begins his own journey