The touching and extraordinary portrait of a woman who subtly reconstructed the world of her mental illness.

"I wrote many pages, but I can't make sense of them. I know too much. I shut off like a tap before my own eyes. Too many awful things. I've done wrong. I must give my own nerves a tune-up. Water comes back to the clouds. My little Émile falls in the rain. This is my sentence. I serve it."
Seventy-five-year-old Mauricette Beaussart, vanished from the hospital where she was being treated for her mental illness. Her friend Christophe Moreel set out to find her. In the course of his quest, Mauricette's past and present intertwine, gradually forming a portrait of a woman with a wealth of great suffering and small joys.