Roch Carrier recalls his childhood during the winter of 1946. He idolizes Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadians. With his favorite sweater too small, his mother writes to Eaton's in french for a new sweater. Instead of a Montreal Canadians sweater, a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater arrives. His mother forces him to wear it. It's a disaster.
It's an iconic Canadian short story adapted into an iconic animation. It hits on two iconic Canadian themes. The most obvious is hockey. It is the national soul. The second theme is the friction between the francophones and anglophones. The animation is primitive but that actually helps in creating a timelessness about the story.