Eve Garance is a remarkable sketch artist with a gift for reading people. As a member of the Investigation Unit of the Montreal Police Department, she uses her talents to create composite sketches and catch criminals.
Eve Garance is a remarkable sketch artist capable of "reading" people. In the Investigation Unit of the Police Department, she uses her talents to create composite sketches to catch criminals. Her colleagues include Maryse Ferron, the methodical director whose disability has never stopped her; Bernard Dupin, the seasoned investigator who keeps the dark regions of his life under wraps, and Anthony Kamal, the new technician who doesn't know what he is getting into. This is the team assigned to solve a laundry list of sordid crimes. They will tackle also cold cases - even if old wounds are opened in the process. The return of Eve's ex will force her to reopen a very personal cold case: that of the disappearance of their son William, then six months old. For five years, Eve has been secretly imagining and sketching the faces that her son could have today in the hope of finding him one day .
A combination of thriller and human drama, The Sketch Artist is a police series thatoutlines the life of Ève Garance, an exceptional sketch artist who is able to "read" people,and that of her three colleagues in the Investigations Unit:
Maryse Ferron, the unit's Director, wheelchair-bound because of a disability, whoapproaches everything on the basis of logic.Bernard "Bruiser" Dupin, the seasoned investigator whose larger-than-life personahides something very dark.Anthony "Anto" Kamal, the new (and very green) crime scene technician.
Together, this team must solve various sordid crimes that occur in the Greater MontrealArea: homicides, missing persons, sexual assaults, kidnappings, robberies, terrorist acts,etc. The Unit also tackles cold cases that have been kept on ice in the hope that one dayjustice would finally be served...
In addition to using her artistic talent to sketch composite portraits, Ève also acts as aninformal investigator on the team, where she draws on her acute emotional intelligenceto "see" into people. And since Ève is not a police officer and doesn't wear a uniform,witnesses and victims are generally more comfortable confiding in her than in the policeofficers. In her office, Ève picks up on details the others miss: body language, lies, slips ofthe tongue, etc.
Although her emotional intelligence and her artistic talent help her bring the truth to lightby putting a face on horror... these skills have not so far allowed her to find her son,William, who was kidnapped under mysterious circumstances when he was a baby.
