One of the most successful gay art-house films of the '90s, Lilies won four Canadian Genie Awards® (the equivalent of the American Oscars®) including Best Picture, and won critical acclaim worldwide. John Greyson's Lilies is an emotionally intense, suspense-laden tale of love, betrayal and revenge in which one man's past comes back to haunt him. In 1952, a Catholic Bishop (Marcel Sabourin) makes an exceptional visit to a prison to hear a dying inmate's last confession. Once in the confessional, the Bishop is confronted by a childhood friend Simon (Aubert Pallascio), who collaborates with his fellow inmates to take the Bishop hostage and reenact Simon's version of events that took place forty years earlier in their rural village. This flashback story centers on two boys who are madly in love with each other. Simon (Jason Cadieux) and Vallier (Danny Gilmore) are cast in a school play about Caesar meeting St. Sebastian. The action moves back and forth, seamlessly through time, between the crude prison and the actual events of 1912, culminating in the tragic night when both men's fates are decided.