There are places where the truth is revealed more easily than elsewhere. The Amsterdam garden is clearly one of those places conducive to confidences, a garden where revelations unfold to the rhythm of tender friendship. Amyot interweaves the story of Adßele, an old woman haunted by a childhood love, and that of young ÔElaine, the same heroine as in The Girl Opposite. Transported from the time of the Second World War to today, from Europe to America, from a generation that is quietly dying out to another that is entering the adult world, the reader finds himself confronted with the echo of his first love.