Also translated into Catalan, Danish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Scots. Also available in another English (for England) version. In 1971, Carmen returns home to convince Manon, her sister, to end ten years of mourning the death of their parents. Past and present intermingle as the two daughters struggle to reconcile their visions of the past, and the parents, Marie-Lou and Léopold, enact the events preceding their fatal car crash. Carmen finally chooses life in a Country & Western bar, leaving Manon to keep vigil for a troubled Québec family best left behind.

« MARIE-LOUISE : […] And you hurt me, you bastard. You hurt like hell. I wanted to scream, but no, my mother told me, shut up and grit your teeth. […] I said to myself, if that's what sex is, never again. Never! »

"First produced in 1971, À toi pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou is perhaps the most emblematic of all Tremblay’s plays. A tragedy, written in fierce dialogue, decrying loneliness, poverty, ignorance and fear of the unknown, it portrays a society at a crossroads, torn between apathetic self-pity and the lucidity that precedes a taking charge of one’s destiny." Marie Labrecque, Voir, September 5, 1996.