Andrea Dorfman's directorial debut PARSLEY DAYS is a delightfully light look at the turmoil and confusion of young love.

Ollie (Michael LeBlanc) and Kate (Megan Dunlop) are the perfect couple... too perfect for Kate's liking. She's a bike maintenance instructor. He runs a birth control clinic. She's just discovered that she's pregnant and, not only doesn't she want to tell Ollie, she wants to break up with him. She confides her dilemma to friend Chloe (Marcia Connelly) who recommends an unusual remedy - a herbal abortion. If Kate can sufficiently immerse herself in parsley, Chloe claims, a homeopathic miscarriage can be induced. So begins Kate's "parsley days", an unending diet of parsley sandwiches, parsley tea, parsley baths and parsley adornments. Her friends gather around her, Ollie can't figure out what's going on and a mysterious boy lurks on the sidelines, cruising like Sean Penn on a mountain bike.

Shot in 11 days in Halifax, for a reported $60,000, PARSLEY DAYS has a fresh unpretentious look and was cited at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.