Taken refuge at the edge of the river where she tries to write, the narrator is haunted by a fragile menagerie of characters. Often, around the table, you looked like a real family. The argument broke out between two characters, each claiming a more interesting story, a more intense pain, a more biting irony than that of the other. their distress, their dreams. There are young girls in a hurry to leave childhood behind, children victims of disappointment, adults caught up in a dreary daily life.