A hard-hitting book that speaks to the contemporary miseries of Tahiti, where two parallel worlds live side by side without ever seeing each other.

The youngest of nine children, nine-year-old Pina depicts the daily life of a family in Tenaho, a housing estate near Pape'ete. Little by little, like their valley and their country, their intertwined destinies begin to buckle under the pressures of daily life and eventually collapse. They helplessly look on as their lives fall apart. The utter antithesis of political correctness, this novel shouts out with rage drenched in sweat, blood, semen, and tears. No lessons learned. No judgment. Just life, in all its ugliness—and what it knows of beauty and the possibility of redemption.