Rencontres

- Season 1

(2017)

Sebastien, fresh off the plane, hears a Québeçoise singing French in Christie Pits Park and invites her for a meal.

Sebastien visits the more touristy parts of the city. A Japanese girl, Ayaka, ends up at the same sights, and they start talking, building their own pidgin language.

Sebastien meets an older Francophone in the gay Village who invites him to a Francophone Drag show.

Sebastien is struggling to order in a Korean restaurant when Martin, a multilingual Canadian Metis, starts a conversation about how language is power.

Sebastien is sitting alone at a bar, when a woman Alexandra, bumps into him. She takes him on a tour of Toronto's great night life.

Sebastien goes to Stouffville,to meet his biological father. He meets its biological father family, and get some answers about his past.

Sebastien is accosted in a café by Maurice, a Seperatist Quebecois. He explains why he detests Toronto and how love made him return to the city he hates.

Sebastien discovers a variety show in French called FrancOpen mic and the difficulty of trying to keep Franco Ontarian Culture alive in Toronto.

As he is running into the ravines, Sebastien meets Ahmed that fell with his bike. After a tense encounter with a policeman, he will found out that why Ahmed refuses to go to the hospital.

On the way to the airport, Seb meets an older French woman, Suzanna. She explains her visit was to see her son and grandchildren and how it is hard for her to only see them once a year.