In the second novel of Melissa Perron's trilogy, her heroine Fabienne finally learns the reason for her oddities, which have distinguished her from other people since childhood. The diagnosis of “autism” puts everything in its place and allows Fabienne to understand herself better: she realizes that there is nothing terrible in her unusual behavior and accepts herself with all her features. After the death of her mother, she inherits a house by the river, and her life takes an unpredictable turn, rushing into a new direction. The river seems to attract happiness into Fabienne’s destiny and gives hope for a future that she, who lived for so many years in captivity of anxiety and numerous fears, could not even dream of. “Mom, what color are your days of the week?” Mine are white, peach, indigo, turquoise, black, gray and red. And in my head, all four seasons follow each other in single file, and from April they begin to climb the slope. All days from Monday to Sunday they travel in carriages, and I look at them from left to right. Don't you remember that there are four wall clocks in my room because I'm obsessed with numbers? Don’t you remember that I spent half my life covering my ears with my hands because the sounds seemed too loud to me? And how for the first ten years did you not want to eat anything other than pasta with a slice of yellow cheese? You really didn’t understand that I’m not like all of you?