Publisher's Synopsis
Locked up in the cellar to pass the summer holidays away from everybody, an introverted fourteen-year-old prepares herself to live her solipsistic dream of happiness: no conflict, no annoying classmates, no comedy and no fiction. The world, with its incomprehensible rules, is left behind on the other side of the door. Until one day her sister, nine years her senior, barges into her bunker, full of vitality, and forces her to remove her adolescent mask and join the chaotic game of the outside world. This is an exceptional novel that presents us with a heartrending vision of the adolescent world.
