Emma, a translator, lives in a small apartment with her fourteen-year-old son Quentin. Tired of translating meaningless fluff, she dreams of writing a great novel. Instead, she is forced to accept a consulting assignment with Kiwi, a web giant that wants to develop infallible translation software. But isn’t participating in this venture helping to make her job useless? While Emma struggles with her contradictions, Quentin lives extraordinary adventures in video games and imagines himself as a genius game player. Until the day he is contacted by a mysterious organization that wants to attack Kiwi. Plunged into their own reality, at the risk of drifting apart, mother and son will find themselves reunited in “real life” by issues that go beyond them...
Camille de Peretti skillfully blends fiction and reality, inviting her readers to a playful journey that questions the power of the imagination, of dreams and ultimately of literature.
