A personal quest for meaning amid forgetting, referencing Georges Perec, Hélène Cixous, and Chantal Akerman.

"There she sits, brimming with love and forgetfulness. I reconstruct her childhood from the fragments of her story I have inherited, without probing or asking questions, to respect her silence. What she never said will not be said. As she forgets, so must this book, too, forget." Raphaël Sigal's grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her grandson attempts to write her story despite the silences and omissions passed down through generations.