Call Me Madame tellsof one Jean-Pierre Voidies, a poet and political activist living in a small French town, who, at the age offifty-five, had a sex change operation and became Ovida Delect. Ovida continues to live with her formerwife, now companion, Huguette, and their son, Jean-Noel. Romand treats her story with compassion, humorand fantasy-three traits which also characterize Ovida, whose disarming candor reveals a poet who hasattempted literally to (re)create the world according to her inner callings. Her family seems to have takenthe revelation of "the woman I had always been" with extraordinary grace, and appear all the more offbeatfor that. Still, like the families in Mix-Up, they are not living happily ever after. Huguette weeps for theman she lost, and Jean-Noel calls himself Ovida's "first victim." Here again, Romand explores thepsychological effects on the family of one member's coming to terms with identity.