The old Caribbean music teacher Siméon is dead but his spirit
lives on. Orélie, a charming young girl, lives with her
father Isidore, an unemployed guitar player and the ghost of the
recently deceased Siméon. She persuades
Siméon to help her father pursue a common goal: to create
some Creole music. To that end, Isidore and Siméon's ghost
leave for Paris to make a record.
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