Louise’s childhood, in 1970s France, is marked by her parents’ financial hardship, their fear of the future, their distress and sadness—a kind of desolation that contaminates everything, down to the color of the skies. Faced with this reality, Louise sets a fierce determination: she will not live her parents’ life. She will be neither poor, nor sad, nor resigned. Guided by a fierce attachment to her freedom, resistant to any form of domination, Louise searches for what she will become. She stumbles, she struggles, she experiments, but she doesn’t let go. She pursues her quest until that summer day, indistinguishable from any other… when something happens in her life, an encounter she had long been waiting for. A novel about staying true to oneself, love, and the desire for freedom.
