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.
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.
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.