1965. The setting is an isolated village near Lac Saint-Jean, Québec. Three sisters and a brother are reunited for the first time in many years. Their mother, who abandoned them when their father failed to come home from World War II, has written to announce her return. While they wait for their mother`s return, they probe the secrets of their past in which the older siblings tried to rewrite family history to protect the youngest sister. Yet it is she who will force them to face reality at last.

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« CATHERINE : How can you tell the truth to a twenty-seven year old woman who acts like an eleven year old who has tantrums no one can control? Am I supposed to apologize for spending the last twenty years of my life making her believe her mother died in Spain? Was I supposed to admit that she's still alive and that she simply abandoned us? […] Well, the day I understand how a mother can abandon her children, I'll explain it to her. »

"The Tanguay family in The Orphan Muses is anything but conventional. But the emotional truths that Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard tackles in his bold, highly theatrical and wonderfully extreme dramatic adventure are instantly recognizable and richly resonant." Barbara Crook, The Vancouver Sun, March ll, 1996.