MONTREAL — Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles in the surreal storyline of Kim Nguyen’s Truffe, now shooting in Montreal with star Roy Dupuis.

The black comedy ‘is about consumer society and is also meant as a tribute to one of Montreal’s oldest industrial neighborhoods,’ the 32-year-old Nguyen (Le Marais) told Playback Daily. Shot in black and white, the $1.2-million picture has attracted some major talent, including Dupuis (Maurice Richard), Céline Bonnier (Délivrez-moi), Pierre Lebeau (Bon Cop, Bad Cop) and Danielle Proulx (C.R.A.Z.Y.).

‘We have an amazing cast and it keeps growing. It started with Roy and then others read the script and liked it. I think people are attracted to its surreal elements,’ says Nguyen.

Dupuis plays an ‘elite’ truffle hunter who owns a snack bar in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood that’s atop a store of the prized underground fungi, the director explains. ‘They build a cave underneath their restaurant and have their own truffle mine.’

The film follows the neighborhood’s rise and fall as a world truffle center, he says. ‘At first, everyone becomes wealthy because there are so many truffles, then the market gets saturated and the economy collapses.’

The film, which is produced, written and directed by Nguyen, will be distributed by Christal Films. Shooting wraps May 3.