 As this desirable position will only be granted to a disabled person, Abrams pretends that he is – and is found out by the management.As punishment, he is banished for two years to Bergues, a town near Dunkirk in northern France.Northern France – and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in particular – is considered "the sticks" – a cold and rainy place inhabited by unsophisticated "ch'tis" who speak a strange dialect (called ""ch'ti"" in local parlance, and ""cheutimi"" in the South).