The film centres on several
anglophones, mostly
Canadians but including one
American, who travel to the small village of Saint-Isidore-du-Cœur-de-Jésus in the
Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region of
Quebec for an intensive
French immersion course. The language students include Bobby "JFGay" Sexton (
Gavin Crawford), a federal Member of Parliament who aspires to become leader of his political party but is avoiding a debate against rival candidate Michael Pontifikator (
Colm Feore) because of his poor French skills; Cathy (
Martha Burns), his
Royal Canadian Mounted Police bodyguard; Aretha Marley (
Oluniké Adeliyi), a flight attendant who has taken the immersion course twice before but still cannot speak French, having learned only how to put on a French accent while speaking English; Colin MacGonagle (
Fred Ewanuick), a divorced postal worker from
Alberta who enters a romance with French teacher Julie Tremblay (
Karine Vanasse); and Jonathan Hornstein (
Jacob Tierney), a trainee chef from
New York City who wants to open a French restaurant. ==Cast==