Early September 1991: The Toronto Festival of Festivals finds successful television director Gerald Ciccoritti ‘very depressed’. He hasn’t done a feature since 1984’s Psycho Girls (budget, $15,000; schedule, nine days; made with the help of friends), and decides to ‘go home…

1989: Take a mild-mannered, senior industrial engineer who lives in Montreal West with his wife and children, slowly add a cause that dates back 108 years, hook him up with an established producer, et voila……