This is a novel in which all the characters actually existed. Almost all of his events are documented. And the novel itself consists of words that were actually spoken; from Cathar sermons that were actually preached; from the precise gestures of their Christian rituals; from quotes from interrogations of inquisitors; from the pitiless and cold zeal of their judgments. A novel that tells the story of the terrible end of Occitan Catharism at the beginning of the 14th century through the prism of the living passion of one of the last believers, Guilhelma Mauri of Montaillou: a young woman who, without hesitation, went against the grain, completely surrendering herself to her religious and love choices. And this current took her life...