After leaving her career as a lawyer to devote herself to writing, the protagonist and narrator of this novel announces to her ex-husband that she has started dating women. His retaliation is swift: full of hatred and determined to keep her away from their son, he decides to take the matter to court to take away her custody, manipulating the child into saying he no longer wants to see his mother. Thus begins a long and devastating legal battle, during which the woman, crushed by bureaucratic absurdity and unprotected against the hypocrisy of the law, tries to organize her new life around absence. Without money or belongings, she moves between borrowed rooms, tiny studios, and hotel reservations, devoted to a monastic routine of daily swimming, reading, and writing. And as hearings, psychological evaluations, and many months of waiting follow one another, she explores her rediscovered sexual orientation through brief affairs with numerous women of different ages, bodies, languages, and lifestyles. Halfway between punk literature and ascetic confession, this brave and heartbreaking novel speaks of love in its many forms. With raw, minimalist, and visceral prose, Constance Debré fearlessly tackles themes such as sex, freedom, and self-discovery, presenting a painfully beautiful story about the impossible sacrifices demanded of mothers.