At the age of seventeen, a young woman abruptly stopped feeling: despite a long stay in a psychiatric hospital, no remedy could cure her unhappiness. Many years later, now in a couple, mother of two, settled into a stable life that anchored her and made her feel secure, she found herself increasingly cramped. She feels something rising like a raging current, and leads a life of lies until she falls, bringing an end to her carefully constructed relationship. She must then confront the fragility of her solitude.
In the vein of Deborah Levy and Lionel Duroy, Tiphaine Le Gall reflects on the price of freedom. Her memories, doubts and hopes lead us to question our own contradictions and subterranean fears.
