''1:54'', a social / psychological drama thriller, tells the story of Tim, a 16-year old timid yet brilliant student (played by Antoine-Olivier Pilon), who has been suffering from School bullying and seemingly non-stopping intimidation and menace for the last 5 years by some of his schoolmates and particularly at the hands of the arch-bully in his school Jeff Roy (played by Lou-Pascal Tremblay). Tim who lives with his father (played by David Boutin) after his mother's early death, cannot confide in his own father despite the latter's efforts to get to the bottom of what is ailing his son.