She fled Toronto for adventure and landed in pig poop. Life's funny like that.
Cassandra Jones is a young woman from Toronto with a very active imagination and unique view of the world. Feeling trapped by life in her low-income community, and unable to relate to her brother Patrick, a petty criminal, or her overly pious mother, Mary, Cassandra decides to leave Toronto. She applies and is accepted into an exchange program between Quebec and West Africa. When she reaches her Quebec destination, a pig farm, she encounters, Sylvie Leblanc, a woman in need of change, her husband, Luc Leblanc, a man afraid of change and Abdoulaye Diallo, her African exchange counter-part, a man who regrets his decision to seek change. Because none of her expectations are met, Cassandra quickly becomes unhappy on the farm. Her presence creates plenty of tension, much of it humorous. A surprising conclusion comes about after a roller-coaster series of events.
Direction
Christene Browne's first feature — Black woman director in '99 Canada, hello?
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like humans failing at connection.
Acting
Sandy Daley's face does three movies worth of work in silence.
Director
Christene Browne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first feature films directed by a Black Canadian woman — shot on mini-DV with basically no budget while the industry ignored her.
The Quebec-Ontario tension here is delicious: Cassandra's Toronto English meets rural Francophone pig farmers, and nobody's the villain. The film refuses easy cultural politics.
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