This is an amazing, crazy and masterfully written story! When a person experiences severe psychological trauma, the brain turns off the emotional system, and the victim suffers bullying in a state of altered consciousness. But then, when the victim is freed from his aggressor, he often experiences the consequences of the stress he experienced... And the brain builds a refuge for itself: a parallel memory that replaces reality so that the victim stops suffering, an illusion in order to survive. Where to hide when there is nowhere else to run? Sandrine , who recently moved to Normandy, receives a call from a notary. He asks to pick up personal belongings from the house of her late grandmother - a strange woman who lived alone on a tiny island off the coast and did not communicate with her daughter and granddaughter. Sandrine disembarks from the ship on a gray, cold island and meets the inhabitants - old people living in almost full isolation from civilization. A strange atmosphere reigns on the island. It only takes Sandrine a few hours to realize that the inhabitants here are hiding some secrets. But why does none of them leave the island? What happened to the children from the holiday camp, hastily closed in 1949? A few days later, Sandrine is found wandering along the beach, clothes soaked in someone else's blood...