Hello, I am Tolu Adebanjo and you are listening to Two Suitcases and a Visa. My guest this week bakes bread at four in the morning in a city where it is minus thirty outside, and he says that is the easy part. Firas ran a bakery in Homs with his father until 2013. He spent three years in Lebanon, sat through a resettlement interview he can still recite word for word, and landed in Montreal in January with two children and not one word of French. Today his shop on Rue Jean-Talon has a queue on Saturday mornings. We talk about night classes, a loan that took four attempts, a maple manakish that his Syrian friends still argue about, and the customer who walked in, smelled the bread and started crying. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.