Leon Bronstein is perhaps not your average Montreal West senior school student. For one thing, none of the peers can claim to be the reincarnation of 20th century iconoclast that is Soviet and Red Army hero. When his father sends Leon to people school as punishment for starting a hunger attack at Papa's clothing factory, Leon instantly brings new meaning to the word'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained fate into the fullest and shift the planet.