The Paper Wedding (Les noces de papier)

Plot Summary

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee. Immigration officers raid the kitchen of a Montreal restaurant. Illegal immigrant dishwashers flee, including a certain Pablo Torres... Claire, a teacher, lives alone. Claire's sister, Annie, a lawyer, has a problem: the visa of her client Pablo, a political refugee who was tortured in his Latin American homeland, is about to expire. Would Claire marry him so he can remain in Canada? Afterwards, she and Pablo will go their separate ways. Claire reluctantly agrees. They marry, but Immigration knows what's going on. The two are forced to live together...