- A group of English-speakers travel to a small-town in Quebec in order to learn French.
- A contemporary comedy about five Anglo-Canadians - actually four Anglos and a New Yorker - who find themselves in a two-week total immersion French program in a remote town in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion, since according to the most recent census the population is 97% Quebecois "pure laine," unilingually French, and fervently nationalist. No one is quite sure who or what the remaining 3% is.—Park Ex Pictures
- Following the closure of the plant - the primary economic generator in town - the residents of the small town of St-Isadore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus in central Québec, for their survival as town, reinvent themselves as a community by opening a French language school. The two week program will be fully immersive, where the students are not to speak English or any other non-French language or else be yellow carded, and will be billeted with local families who are to expose them solely to traditional Québecois culture. The program is despite the general animosity the Francophones especially in small town Québec have against their Anglophone counterparts in the rest of the country, the Francophones who view the Anglophones more as curiosities than people. The students will have a difficult enough time remembering who's who as almost everyone in the town has the surname Tremblay. The second class of students includes: Bobby Sexton, incognito as Bobby Smith, an in the closet gay MP for the Completely Canadian Party, he who will be running for the party leadership once the current leader makes the official announcement to step down, and who needs to be able to debate in French against who will be his main rival, Michael Pontifikator; Jonathan Hornstein, a Jewish New York chef trainee, who wants to open a French restaurant; Colin MacGonagle, a mild mannered Red Deer postal carrier; Aretha Marley, a flight attendant who mistakenly believes her French is already good having been in French immersion before, and who has to pass her company's language test this time around to stay employed; and Cathy, a firefighter. Beyond the French-English divide, complications ensue as: Bobby's true identity possibly comes to light, especially as Pontifikator is all over the airwaves; competitive but loving sisters Ginette and Pat, Cathy and Aretha's hosts respectively, argue over who should get who as a billet; Cathy's true profession and her reason for being at the school also possibly comes to light; the divide in Jonathan's host family's household is not French-English but rather Catholic-Jewish; Jonathan finds a kindred soul in South Asian Kumar, a Punjabi restaurateur who moved to town as he was told that's where all the Indians are, and as his arranged marriage bride Amrita won't speak to him as she hates the town; Colin's host parents' adopted twin Asian daughters doing whatever they can to make his life miserable; and Colin becomes more interested in the French language teacher, Julie Tremblay, than he is in the French language itself. But the town administrators may have bigger problems in that they are competing with the plethora of French immersion programs around, and have to defend themselves against some complaints from the first class of students, which threatens to shut them down before they even really begin.—Huggo
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