Léolo is conceived when his mother falls into a crate of tomatoes, and his life continues just as strangely: Growing up in the slums of Montreal, the 14-year-old retreats into his own world. This may ...

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs ...