From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
Montreal
**Montreal** figures in Francophone adaptations of Beach Surgery as a site of linguistic doubling and layered geography. The city's underground Réso (connected passages and metro), its textile-factory heritage (now converted to artist studios), and its contested colonial history ground several indie works and one ongoing durational theatre cycle.
The city's bilingual structure mirrors the novel's glitch—two halves that do not compute, a seam running through every utterance. Pilgrimages organized by local fandom trace paths between the Lachine Rapids (imagined as the conflict zone's echo) and underground factory sites where Katita-analogues perform triage in makeshift clinics.
The Leather Underneath: A Duet of Care has run iteratively in Montreal's Griffintown warehouse district since 2021, using sites slated for redevelopment. The work's emphasis on care-labour resonates with Montreal's textile-union history and ongoing healthcare precarity.
A doujinshi cycle titled *Montréal-Désert* (“Montreal-Desert”) draws the city's frost-covered lanes as a recurrence of the red desert interior. One unnamed filmmaker has reportedly filmed a ten-versions piece mapping the metro's structure onto the three injuries. [citation needed]