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.