Denise Filiatrault

Interlocking stories adapted by author Michel Tremblay's popular plays from life on the Plateau, a borough of Montreal. A young teenager gets pregnant accidentally and must find a way to get an abortion, nobody will know about.

Two sisters working in a munitions factory during WWII dream of only one thing: marriage. As the Canadian government passes a law to draft all single men past a certain date, there is a huge rush for couples to marry and marry fast.