Patrimony

During the turbulent sixties the call for Quebec independence created a political and social maelstrom in Canada. For nearly ten years riots bombings labor strikes and violent street scenes-many even worse than what were seeing today-were part of everyday life in Montreal the epicenter of battle. PATRIMONY represents the essence of that still-smoldering conflict. Told from the viewpoints of two brothers and a sister PATRIMONY is about what happens in a country when political ideology resorts to terrorism. Its about what happens in a family when one brother believes in responsible political action to achieve his goals and the other brother a time-bomb ticking toward an explosion will do anything to get what he wants including using his own sister for blackmail. From PATRIMONYS opening chapter a trip to North Carolina where brother and sister buy explosives from gunrunners to a factory bombing and a symbolic attempt to blow up a bridge the plot moves quickly. It weaves through cultural differences family and political conflicts and ends in an unprecedented political crisis-Quebec under martial law.