When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of
Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher
Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to
toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Brittany. She
becomes increasingly obsessed by her childhood sweetheart, Simon
Quelen, who, now married and a father, still lives in a village
further down the coast where he is the local pharmacist and mayor.
Having moved into a farmhouse, she soon spends her days walking the
heathland above the cliffs and spying on him as he sails in the
bay. As she walks, she is at one with the land of her childhood and
youth, "her skull emptying into the landscape." And when her
younger brother Paul comes to join her there, the web of
solidarities is further enriched. This is a tale of dramatic
episodes, told through intermingling voices and the atmospherics of
the austere Breton landscape. Ultimately, it is a story of
obsessional love and of a parallel sibling bond that is equally
strong.
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