St-Edmond, 1946. In the heart of a bucolic village in the Outaouais region, nine-year-old Délia is preparing for another summer of vacation and happiness: shimmering countryside, wild fruits, swimming, candor, and innocence. Then the unthinkable happens, and her life is shattered. Délia helplessly witnesses the violent death of her young cousin, Rosemarie, who falls from the window of her parents' house. Heinous crime or tragic accident?
St-Edmond, 1946. In the heart of a bucolic village in the Outaouais region, nine-year-old Délia is preparing for another summer of vacation and happiness: shimmering countryside, wild fruits, swimming, candor, and innocence. Then the unthinkable happens, and her life is shattered. Délia helplessly witnesses the violent death of her young cousin, Rosemarie, who falls from the window of her parents' house. Heinous crime or simple accident? A police investigation begins, plunging the entire small village into the abyss of a child's death. In a rural Quebec riddled with the omnipresence and power of nuns, the net slowly tightens around a family with troubled secrets, leading to the tragic denouement, brought about by a meticulous reconstruction of events. More than fifty years after the tragedy, the narrator's memory is as vivid as her wound is painful.
