Sonia Quirion

The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.

The story takes place in 1910 in Montreal, Quebec, while a killer terrorized the city. In the same period, Florence and Camille Courval, two sisters originating in French Manitoba inherit the Eden Museum, where statues of wax in connection with criminal news are housed.

Mathieu is a public writer in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal. In the past years, he discovered that his job is more about people than literature. He must first listen and then finds the right words for those who can’t write. Feeling the need to tell what his story, he wrote a first novel inspired by his experiences. The critics love it, but the book bothers his employer who immediately fires him. Mathieu wants to continue to help, but he feels more and more divided between the two worlds.

The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.

Two women, with diametrically-opposed lives, get stuck into an elevator together by happenstance, and learn about each other's life and story to pass the time