Based on a true story, Matrons and Madams is a sprawling saga of a teacher-turned-madam and a lady superintendent of a hospital, who join forces to combat the rampant venereal disease that spreads throughout Alberta once soldiers return from the Great War, and also to improve the lives of the women in the brothels of Lethbridge.
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Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing a brothel called The Last Post.
Set against the backdrop of love, union organizers, amorous bachelors, gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes, the lives of these two women unexpectedly intertwine when Clara, in the heat of local politics and responding to the highest incidence of venereal disease in the province, establishes the first venereal disease clinic in the province, with Lilys help. In this sprawling saga, Lily and Clara must confront the citys conservative thinkers to bring help and compassion to wounded veterans.
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