Adoration 2008

Simon, a Toronto high school student, has been raised by his maternal Uncle Tom since Simons parents, Rachel and Sami, died in a car accident eight years ago. Tom, a tow truck driver, decided to move to the city into Rachels house and assume the mortgage, something he could ill afford, largely not to disrupt Simons life, but equally to get away from his and Rachels 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 mothers expensive violin, which Tom would like to sell to help pay the mortgage and Simons imminent university tuition. One day at school, Simons 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...