Agnès Bourgeois

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.

Alex, an 18-year-old astrophysics student, dreams of the cosmos and of working at NASA, far from earthly concerns. But his bubble bursts when his mother, suffering from breast cancer, is about to undergo surgery: an event that diverts him from his orbit, the time of a sleepless night where nothing happens as planned, and where Alex gets lost before deciding to land...