Salsa

At age 24, R├®mi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years – Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: ” You don’t have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!”. Undaunted, R├®mi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers R├®mi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that R├®mi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family’s “secrets and lies” reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?