Catherine Pancol's new trilogy is about beautiful women who dance their dance of life in New York and Paris, London and Saint-Chalan. Men?.. They exist too. But women rule the roost here. Fiery, inventive, loving, they fight for their destiny and do not want to give up. For many years, Ray Valenti, a brave fireman from the town of Saint-Chaland and part-time petty swindler, tyrannized Stella and her mother Leonie, pretending in public to be a loving father and husband. But Stella has grown up and intends to fight back. Even if the odds seem unequal, she is determined to expose Ray's machinations and help her mother break free from his oppression. Moreover, recently Leonie, for whom Stella is the last hope, revealed a terrible secret to her daughter: Ray is not actually her father.