Description
Quebec, 1942. Alice Lemoine adores her mother, Mathilde, despite her habit of constantly drawing the spotlight on herself. A perfect example of beauty and elegance, she is the queen of all social events. While she knows she's pretty too, the young woman prefers to be recognized as a good Catholic, knowing how to honor her family and her rank.
When Mathilde's health begins to visibly deteriorate, Alice is devastated. Suffering from being an only child, she resents her father, who is distant and absent. But illness has a way of confronting people with their own vulnerability. On her deathbed, her mother feels the need to ease her conscience and confides an explosive secret.
Soon, Alice discovers photos and letters hidden by Mathilde in a false-bottomed drawer. Intrigued, she sets out to piece together the past. The price to pay will be terrible, since the clever scaffolding her parents have constructed to preserve their respectability will soon collapse like a house of cards.
However, in the heart of high society, this select club which jealously protects its privileges, appearances are everything...
