Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal is a story of a nun who witnessed
numerous crimes executed under the roof of a Canadian convent. The exposures related to the
sexual exploitation of nuns the killings of illegitimately born infants and other nuns who
opposed the monastery's rules. The narrator escapes the convent to save the life of her unborn
child and after escaping agrees to tell about her experience in an interview that laid the
basis of this book.