The young nurse did not know what she would encounter on the Captain's deserted island, where she agreed to offer her services. "Patient" is not actually the kind-hearted old man himself, but his little protege, who lives confined by her own will in a strange mansion without mirrors.
Why? wonders the nurse. And why is she forbidden to speak about it under penalty of death? Like a female Hermes, she will enlist all the art of the messenger god to unravel the mystery, win the girl's heart, and silently convey the incredible message to her.
Only the reaction will not be what she expects. Because things never have just one side.
Blind love, deception, coercion, complicity, double play around beauty and horror - Amelie Notomb plays with vigor in the whole range of fatal passions, plunging her merciless world into an atmosphere of gothic parody and black romanticism. Her weapons are the inventive plot, the caustic humor, the art of confrontation and sarcastic dialogue: in other words, a captivating personal style, in which both the public and the critics recognized an author beyond the ordinary measures.