This is a play within a play. The central plot concerns two young boys in a Catholic college, in 1912, who fall in love while working on a play about St. Sebastian. Their passion ends in tragedy with one boy sent to prison, the other dead. Years later, as the aged inmate is about to be released, he is visited by the local monsignor, who as a boy was party to the tragic events. The inmate re-stages the entire story as a play, forcing the monsignor to admit his role in the tragedy.

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« BILODEAU : Your sickness is that you do things with Vallier like he was a girl. And he's so sick, he calls that love. (He laughs.) / SIMON : Aren't you gettin' a bit carried away, Bilodeau? / BILODEAU : Ask Lily-White what he told me when you left the attic. / SIMON : There's a helluva difference between the things you do in the attic and… / BILODEAU : He said that when you have a lot of feeling for someone and you can't explain it, that's what love is. And that's how he feels about you. And he said you feel the same way about him. / SIMON : Shut up, Bilodeau! »

"This play is definitely a masterpiece of Québec theatre in the 1980s." Robert Lévesque, Le Devoir, September 25, 1987.&r "The triumphant return of Lilies sends its playwright to the pinnacle of Québec theatre." Ken Morrison, Montreal Mirror, January 13-26, 1989.