What We Have

Exploring the recent phenomenon of European immigration to Canada, What We Have charts the journey of Maurice Lesmers, a gay Frenchman, who finds himself 'lost in translation' in Northern Ontario. Fleeing from his troubled past in France, Maurice's romantic sense of Canada leads him to seek refuge in a remote community where he discovers little outlet for his Parisian appetite for one-night stands. Maurice takes a job tutoring French to 15-year old Allan, a shy student struggling at school, and auditions for the local Francophone production of Moliere's The Miser. When he lands the leading role, Maurice is surprisingly drawn to the theatre company's charismatic manager, Michael. But their relationship is endangered when Maurice gets caught up in Allan's adolescent world and risks everything to protect his young student who develops a hard-to-resist attraction for his enigmatic European mentor.