Sang just turned 15 years old. His parents send him to Canada for a year to learn English. On the plane he meets a Korean girl name Yen. She is studying in Niagara Falls but at a different school. They talk on the plane and Yen decides that she wants to go to school with Sang. They meet five other ESL students in English class. Joanne from Taiwan. Jerome from the Phillipines. Felipe from Colombia, and Sara and Karla who are sisters from Mexico. They all are at the beginning level of English and things get scary when they lie to their host-parents an spend and interesting day in Toronto.