Salsa

At age 24 Rémi Bonnet brilliant pianist abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years Salsa He heads for Paris the salsa capital of Europe only to discover to his great surprise that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band Felipe his Cuban friend sets him straight You dont have the Latino look muchacho Today if your are not Cubano or Columbiano you are out Undaunted Rémi deliberately takes on the identity accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French Barreto 75 the legendary Cuban composer who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie Her familys secrets and lies reveal parental links to Barreto Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor