Canada | V.O. French | 2011 | 89 min | 35 mm | color | Fiction

Rami, a young man struggling with a physical disability, desperately tries to find his way in this touching story set in Montreal's Lebanese community, a milieu rarely seen onscreen. Working at the family restaurant and living under his parents roof, Rami occupies a world meticulously controlled by his father, who pays his son's bills, chooses his vocational school and eventual career, and even finishes his sentences. As they prepare for their eldest daughter's wedding, the family starts to wonder when Rami will find a girlfriend. Intensely shy but curious about women, Rami escapes online, where he has constructed an avatar called Roméo 11, a confident and successful globe-trotting businessman. One day he takes a bold step by agreeing to date a woman with whom he's struck up an online flirtation, leading to one of the film's most memorable sequences: Rami's elaborate plan to measure up to his cyber-identity. As he nervously waits for his date in a chic hotel restaurant, the anticipation of what might transpire is agonizing.

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