Michael, Kyle and Claire

Michael and his lifelong friend Kyle can’t believe their luck. It’s summer in their native Vancouver, and the two 25-year-old men have stolen the hearts of Claire and Dominique, two French women vacationing in Canada on temporary work visas. Is it the Summer of Love? Not for the two French men who traveled to Canada with the girls. But they’ve been dumped and are out of the picture — having packed their bags and returned heartbroken to France. Alas, Claire and Dominique must return, too. The visa of Dominique is the first to expire and she leaves, committing to a long-distance relationship with Kyle. When she falls back in love with her French boyfriend a few months later, postal worker Michael delivers her Dear John letter to Kyle personally. Devastated, Kyle takes to drinking alone in his parents’ basement and obsessively teaching himself French in a bid to win her back. Witnessing Kyle’s descent into obsessive madness, Michael must now decide what to do with his love Claire, a barista and make-up artist whose visa has just expired. She also has a French boyfriend pining for her back home, so long-distance is out. Should Michael travel to France with her or marry her and keep her in the country? Michael browses engagement rings at a local jewelry store, but he hesitates to pull the trigger: can he really trust Claire, who cheated on her boyfriend to be with him? Who is she speaking her native tongue to in those clandestine phone calls to France at 3am, and what is she saying in them? Is she the love of his life or la femme infidel? Claire prints off a French visa application for Michael, impatiently making the decision for him. While Michael is grudgingly selling his car to finance the trip, Claire is fired from her barista job due to her expired visa. Although she’s ecstatic Michael has committed to moving to France, after getting the axe she committed to doing the make-up for a short film being shot in the resort town of Whistler this weekend — she was counting on Michael driving her up there in his car! Michael and Claire ask Kyle to drive them to Whistler in his parents’ car. He agrees, but wants Dominique’s phone number in France, which he threw away in a drunken bout of anger. Claire provides it, but the night before the trip, a boozy Kyle drives around the city working up the courage to make the call and ends up totaling his parents’ car and getting arrested. Bailing him out in the morning, Michael must find another way to get Claire to Whistler. He decides to ‘borrow’ his postal delivery truck, and the three of them set off on a road trip along the Sea to Sky Highway, with Kyle tagging along to avoid the wrath of his parents. Arriving that afternoon in Whistler, by nightfall Michael’s paranoia about Claire’s faithfulness kicks into overdrive, pushing her away and into the drunken arms of Kyle, whose months of obsessive French language learning reveals a disturbing secret contained within Claire’s 3am phone calls to France. Playing a jejune game of love and loss since their Summer of Love began, Michael, Kyle and Claire now find the stakes have risen to include life and death.