A clerk in the Newfoundland provincial department of education with secret ambitions to become president and lead the province to secede from Canada. He accidentally triggers a revolution and serves as the central figure in a film-within-a-film that explores his real life and imaginary rise to power, fulfilling a prophecy made by his grandfather.
His actual job contrasts with his ambitions.
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