An opera diva, Patricia, meets her Waterloo singing Salomé at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In an impromptu get-together in her Nuns' Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Europe, her mother, a popular Montreal stage and television actress, and her idealistic committed-to-new-work daughter goad her. They challenge the sense of an international career if your art doesn't contribute to change, or at least to wide-spread pleasure and inspiration, in the society you live in?

« PATRICIA : It's impossible to like it here, it's too small! Do you realize how small it is here, Michelle? Do you? Look out the window, look across the river… It looks like a big city, there's lots of big buildings, lots of noise and pollution! But you only realize how small it is once you manage to get away! »