After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
Guitar player Oli is, for better or worse, the manager of Gemini, a Limoilou pizzeria that sells neither fries nor sodas. He is trying to form a band with his best friend, Grondin, a drummer, barstool poet and radio host. Their lead singer Joe has just left them to join rival band Les Hypsters, which leads them to recruit the laconically enigmatic bass player Kundera. Hovering around them are Murder, a carless pizza delivery boy, wandering poets and a colourfully eccentric thirty-something clientele.
Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec City this year. Their love will be put to the test when a former love of Gaby's turns up at the championships. Gaby finds herself at a crucial point of her life where she has to choose whether to continue competing or follow another dream that she's cherished forever, but which seems impossible to everyone else—her dream to become an astronaut.
They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.
In 1987, Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...
Pending an eviction from their landlord, a brother and a sister have no choice but to take matters into their own hands to come up with the money and stay out of the streets.
This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to Quebec, the city that was called the "New France".
Malcom, octogenarian and artist by trade, has to leave his house along with the neighborhood where his artistic approach is firmly rooted.