A seventy year old woman from a working class district of Montreal reassesses the major turning points of her life, all marked by failure and disappointment. Five actresses play the part of Albertine in five different decades of her life, between the ages of 30 and 70. All five Albertines are present on stage, at times unaware of each other and at other times interacting and dialoguing with each other, and with Madeleine, Albertine's sister, whose life has been very different.

« MADELEINE : You don't have to tell me... / ALBERTINE AT 70 : It's so difficult! / ALBERTINE AT 30 : You'd think we were alone in the world, just the two of us… / ALBERTINE AT 70 : It's so dark all of a sudden… / ALBERTINE AT 60 : Makes you want to whisper… / ALBERTINE AT 40 : No, makes you want to destroy everything! »

"Take the stark grandeur and noble tragedy of a greek chorus, the psychological intimacy of a Shakespearian soliloquy, and the modern shattering of time and space in order to portray a deeper reality, hand them over to Michel Tremblay, and the result is Albertine, en cinq temps." Aurèle Parisien, Hour, October 1995.&r "The structure is so ingenious and the idea behind it so rich with both dramatic and philosophical possibilities that we are inevitably drawn into a life story that is both painful and hopeless." Cathryn O’Neill, The Herald, Glasgow, February 7, 1998.