Born in Acadia to a French-speaking father and an English-speaking mother, Earl Tremblay grapples with a distinctly Canadian-flavoured identity crisis. Determined to resolve it, he dedicates to this end the nineteen reels of film bequeathed to him by his filmmaker mother. His aim: to document his daily life and find the same meaning in both English and French. Reel after reel, as his journey takes him from the Maritimes to Montreal and on to Ottawa, where he becomes a Member of Parliament, Earl Tremblay watches his personality split and ultimately tear itself apart for good.



