In order to devote herself fully to writing her novel, a young writer moves into her trans partner’s family home in the Alps, on the French-Italian border. The calm she finds there is all the more necessary as she is also waiting to find out if she is pregnant…
At the same time, the nearest river, which men have long since buried but which continues to flow beneath the house, speaks up to tell the story of a tragic love affair between two young girls a century ago.
Two stories of unconventional love alternate before finally coming together. Thanks to her narrative talent and powerful evocative powers, Wendy Delorme plunges us into a deeply inhabited story, where houses preserve the memory of past lives, and where the elements—water, wind, trees and stones—become characters in their own right.
