As the leader of a separatist group advocating terrorism, a son forces his father to renounce a candidacy leading to a Cabinet nomination on the eve of a federal election. A powerful clash between generations centered on Québec separatist and federalist issues, bringing tragedy to an otherwise close family. The most comprehensive stage play ever written on this topic in Canada.

« GRAVEL : Fundamentally it's a question of words. The separatists get stirred up telling themselves the bottle's half empty... We try to unstir them by telling them it's half full. / O'BRIEN : Both of you are really after the same thing: only there's a difference of opinion about the means. »