Fed up with the cost of living in Canada's most populous city, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of "Wildmen" in the city's vast ravine network.
A filmmaker, who had been sleeping in his car while attending a film festival far from home, notices a policeman circling his car when returning from the final night of events.
Things Behind the Sun follows a week in the life of a teenage tennis player who is struggling to balance practice with his home life as an important tournament approaches.