A novel about new beginnings for three characters moving in their loneliness and deeply inspiring in their emergence from it.

Three people who've had hard lives happen to meet: Elsa, Marie, and Guillaume. What do they have in common? None of them manage to sleep at night.
Elsa roams town in a bus to avoid the violence of the street, Marie piles on night shifts at the hospital, and Guillaume keeps his bar open as late as he can to escape being alone. They run into each other in their everyday lives, sharing a neighborhood: at Raphael's wonderful pastry shop, the laundromat, or answering a personals ad in the paper…