a passage to ottawa be a superb family film in the league of kolya and child of haven and and central station sans the need for english subtitle drive by emotion and story plot rather than sex and action . the film be very touching and possibly due to outstanding performance of actor on it racial harmony family theme and or perhaps due to it excellent cinematography and direction and or may be due to it superb story plot center around a 8 year old boy from india with great east west music . the story take place in canada . the fatherless boy omi be in search of a comic card hero to take home to india with him to care for his ail mother . after a couple of misjudgments and he find roland and black captain of a local tour boat . omi change his vision of hero from be white to someone who love orange soda . the teenage safia born of asian indian father and white canadian mother and who be take care of omi and pretend she have nothing indian in her . she get in romance with the much old roland use omi a an excuse to meet often with him . the film beautifully present the cultural mosaic of canada in the integration perspective . shot during and after the tulip festival in the spring and the film show the canadian capital in a storybook set . although visit from india and omi surprisingly have no accent .