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The need to break the silence to tell what the victims of the Good Shepherd congregation experienced.<div> "It looked like a convent, but it was a prison."</div><div><br></div><div> It was after watching Emerance Dubas's documentary "Bad Girls" that Margaux Eskenazi had her epiphany. Until the late 1980s, thousands of young girls, deemed deviant or unruly in the eyes of a hypocritical patriarchal society, found themselves locked away overnight in this religious institution, without knowing when they would be able to leave. Under the guise of "re-education," corporal punishment, forced labor, and collective humiliation marked their childhood and adolescence. How could such violence be inflicted by women on other women?</div><div><br></div><div> Based on the testimonies of former residents, with incredible strength of character, Margaux Eskenazi weaves a powerful fiction, the story of Marthe, sent to the Good Shepherd at 15 years old, on the evening of her father's second marriage.</div><div><br></div><div> After its premiere as an open-air production at the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire, the show will be reinvented in an immersive and musical version, enhanced by the voices of its heroines. Fifty years later, Marie-Christine and Éveline are more determined than ever to obtain justice.</div>