Playwright and artist Glenda Leznoff sets her sexy, honest story about a love triangle between three teens against the backdrop of the early 1970s and the FLQ crisis. Trouble begins when Jules Epstein’s anglophone mother forces them to move from Montreal to Toronto. Her vampy neighbour and soon-to-be classmate, Carla, takes an immediate dislike to the studious, quiet Jules, a feeling that blooms into hatred when the girls both fall for bad boy Ian Slater. Much drama ensues, but Leznoff does a great job keeping the action and dialogue realistic, both for the characters’ ages and the time period.
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