Marie wanted to write the adventures of Mary Simpson, she wanted to raise four boys and four girls, and she wanted to walk all the way to Tierra del Fuego. She wanted... But instead she sold cheap shoes on Mount Royal Street in Montreal. She wrote fiery words on the walls, she smiled on television and slept a lot. In four scenes, each inspired by a different genre, we follow the voyage of a bold woman, from the moment she left for school one sunny May morning to her frantic escape, many years later, alone in a rickety boat on the high seas.

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« THÉO : One morning I woke up, and I knew that I'd lost something. […] I had this abyss inside me. And everything was beginning to drain into that, drop by drop - because it was a very narrow abyss. / MARIE : Drop by drop of what? What was draining? What do you mean? / THÉO : Beauty, pleasure, the smell of a woman, the idiot laughter, the meaning of things. »

"With a wonderful sideways approach to her symbols, Fréchette creates here a theatrical atmosphere that feels like a mix of South American magic realism and Parisian absurdism (...) Her theatrical universe is a bold one, her language rising to wild flights of poetry, her style ranging from gentle naturalism to outrageous surrealism." Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail, May, 1997.