Jean-Marc, his lover Mathieu, and Mathieu's son, Sebastien, arrive at Jean-Marc's family homestead in the Laurentians for summer vacation. The minute he opens the door, Jean-Marc starts to encounter some of the house's former inhabitants. In 1910, Josaphat-le-violon and his sister Victoire must decide whether or not to move to the city; in 1950, Edouard and Albertine must choose to accept or reject the imaginary in their lives. Jean-Marc finally reconciles these traces of his family's past with the reality of his present life and family.

« JEAN-MARC : […] I bought all those memories to keep them from sinking into indifference. / MATHIEU, very softly : And to revive them? / JEAN-MARC : If nothing else, to help me try. One summer won't be enough… / MATHIEU : You sure you'll be able to spend two months here, alone? / JEAN-MARC : Nope. »

In covering the hugely successful production of La maison suspendue (House among the Stars) at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, a Globe and Mail correspondent from Scotland reported: "There is even talk of a `Tremblay phenomenom.'The Herald (Glasgow) describes House among the Stars as a play `which speaks intimately to the Scottish soul.' The Guardian has written of ‘the best playwright Scotland never had.' Carl Honoré, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, October 31, 1992.