Claire, a woman of forty-seven at the height of her professional career, quits her job, her apartment in Paris and everything that until then has shaped her life to return to the town of Brittany where she grew up. There she meets by chance the piano teacher of her childhood, who proposes to go and live with her. Little by little he reinstalls in the place, rediscovers his first love and establishes a deep relationship with his younger brother.

Unexpectedly, her daughter, whom she had not seen for twenty years, returns to be with her. In a polyphonic way, all the characters that relate to Claire evoke this woman whose story and destiny becomes increasingly surprising, as they reveal the family secrets, jealousy and hidden violence that nest in the protagonists of This deeply disturbing novel of a sober and engaging beauty that traces endlessly the enigma that constitutes the fact of being in the world.