In the Promised Land in the North of the Americas, four women meet at the heart of a fabulous vortex, beyond ordinary time and place. In this play about women's creativity, four Québec writers, Laura Conan, The Ancestress, Germaine Guèvremont, The Islander, Gabrielle Roy, Little Crow and Anne Hébert, Cloud Dancer, share their knowledge, memories, and dreams, and reveal their most intimate fears.

« LAURE: La Malbaie in the nineteenth century! You have no idea... / ANNE: A cultural desert? / LAURE: A desert. Period. […] The fear of fire. […] GERMAINE: Afraid your house would burn down? / GABRIELLE: That someone would set fire to your house? / LAURE: No, my books! / ANNE (suddenly vehement): […] Laure Conan, that's nothing but paranaioa. / LAURE: Obviously you've never met any bookburners. […] There were many in The Northern Land, in Upper and Lower Canada. Vigilant missionaries of fire. Eyes wide open, their mouths like flame-throwers. […] The most devilish of all, Father Casgrain, Imprimatur incarnate. / ANNE: You were afraid of him? / LAURE: Afraid enough to write him pious, humble letters. »

"A celebratory experience for both cast and audience, a presentation of the female condition in both its pain and its exultation, set to rich, poetic music." Jon Kaplan, Now, Toronto, May 15- 21, 1986.