A work from the artist portfolio “L’hommage aux Plouffe” that contained eight silkscreens signed and numbered by Henri Masson and Roger Lemelin. With the publication of his novel Les Plouffe in 1948, Roger Lemelin created a fictional universe that was to be a huge success spanning several decades. The work is adapted for television and aired on the CBC in the 1950s, under the title La Famille Plouffe. This first Quebec soap opera immediately conquered a large audience and contributed to the enthusiasm of Quebecers for this type of television production, still very popular today. In turn novel, radioroman, soap opera, films and miniseries, the history of Plouffe constitutes a rich literary and audiovisual heritage that immortalizes urban Quebec from the late 1930s to the 1950s, period of identity awareness in a company in transformation.