Montreal's St. Lawrence Boulevard was for years the neighbourhood that most warmly welcomed European immigrants. Here a newspaper and magazine shop is shown to be an informal community centre where new Canadians, especially Hungarians, could find not only news, but soccer scores, recorded music and advice on numerous topics.

A filmmaker revisits Montréal's St. Lawrence Boulevard--the Main--the road from the docks to the heart of immigrant Canada. This is a little Europe, a street of many languages, many Old World foodstuffs, a hundred small courtesies that make the stranger feel at home. For the filmmaker his prevailing memory is of the seventeen steps of a walk-up apartment, but for all Canadians, born or made, this film has many nostalgic links with a common Canadian experience.