"The Foreign Student" is a nostalgic portrait of a French scholarship student's discovery of America - and Washington and Lee University - during the academic year of 1954-1955. Soon, the young freshman becomes seduced by American culture and the popular icons of the mid-fifties: Jack Kerouac, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Fats Domino...a green Buick convertible, drive-in movies, and pretty Grace Kelly lookalikes in tight cardigans.
