爱慕

中学生西蒙（Devon Bostick 饰）的父母在一次车祸中身亡，这些年一直同舅舅汤姆生活，在外公生命中最后的日子里，西蒙用影像记录下外公的回忆，拼贴出渐渐模糊的父母形象……西蒙的老师萨宾（Arsinée Khanjian 饰）布置下一篇翻译作业，内容是叙述者对父母卷入一次恐怖袭击的回忆，西蒙在完成作业的过程中与叙述者融为一体，使同学们误认他在当众讲述自己的私事，萨宾要求西蒙继续创作，同学们在网络视频中的互动讨论颇为热烈，一些教师和家长甚至陌生人也参与其中，纷纷对这位“恐怖份子”的儿子表达了看法。靠拖车为生的汤姆偶遇萨宾，一番接触之下，汤姆发现对方居然是死去姐夫的前妻，而汤姆的一段不愿揭开的心灵负担也被萨宾盘问了出来…… 　　本片获2008年东京电影节评审团票选最佳加拿大电影。Simon, a Toronto high school student, has been raised by his maternal Uncle Tom since Simon's parents, Rachel and Sami, died in a car accident eight years ago. Tom, a tow truck driver, decided to move to the city into Rachel's house and assume the mortgage, something he could ill afford, largely not to disrupt Simon's life, but equally to get away from his and Rachel's father, Morris, an openly bigoted man. That upbringing has made Tom a sullen and angry man. Morris only recently passed away. Rachel and Sami met when she, a violinist, brought her instrument in to be serviced, Sami the repairman. Simon now owns his mother's expensive violin, which Tom would like to sell to help pay the mortgage and Simon's imminent university tuition. One day at school, Simon's French teacher Sabine reads a French newspaper story from several years ago as a translation exercise for the class, the story about a pregnant woman traveling to Israel, her then boyfriend who, unknown to her, planted a bomb in her luggage intended to blow up while the airplane was in flight, meaning that if it was not caught before departure, which it was, it would have killed her and their unborn child. Because Simon interestingly translates the story from the perspective of him being that unborn child now a teenager, Sabine, who is also the school's drama teacher, asks Simon to flesh out the story as a play, either in French or English. Simon begins to pedal the story widely as his reality, in other words that the woman in question truly was his mother Rachel and the bomber truly was who ended up being his Palestinian father, Sami, which may or may not in fact be true. Simon, Sabine and Tom all have to make decisions surrounding this issue, which they do to help their individual self deal with his or her own reality of the situation.