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Robert Lepage directed this Canadian comedy filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepages play The Seven Branches of the River Ota In October 1970 Montreal actress Sophie AnneMarie Cadieux appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka Worlds Fair Back in Montreal her boyfriend Michel Alexis Martin watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets Sophie learns shes pregnant and phones Michel However Michel is immersed in politics while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her costar Eric Bernier becomes friendly with a blind translator and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter Richard Frechette and his wife Patricia Marie Gignac Meanwhile in Montreal Michael plots terrorist activities Commenting on EastWest cultural distinctions the film intercuts between Quebec in black and white and Japan in color