From The Tin Drum to Life Is Beautiful, a wide-eyed child giving mute witness is a standard device in "serious" cinema. In the gently languid children's movie A Passage To Ottawa, the object of childhood horror is our nation's capital.

Not that there's anything inherently sinister about Ottawa, with its tulips and rivers and zzzzzzz. But as a dramatic sounding board for an eight-year-old motherless Hindu child 10,000 miles from home, you can't do much better than one of the most white-bread cities in Canada.
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