Ever since Benito, having almost taken the lives of his adoptive parents, was imprisoned, the Braban family lives in constant fear, fearing his early release. But their calm, peaceful existence will be turned upside down not by Benito, but by the mad love of the eldest daughter Sinesitta for the hardened criminal, murderer Stuart Collen. Mixing realism and fiction, cruelty and tenderness, tragedy and humor, Patrick Besson draws us into a stunning family saga, written with such brilliance and unexpected plot twists that it immediately became a bestseller.