A young woman is waiting for her lover. He is older than her. He is married. He comes to see her whenever he wants and then leaves her. She's just the mistress. While she waits for him, she reads. Annie Ernaux or Roland Barthes, Françoise Sagan or Marguerite Duras. But especially Hubert Aquin, Next episode. And torments this haunting question: how to explain this propensity that a people and some girls have to plunge headfirst into a mess? To sink into dreams that they themselves do not believe?

"Un roman provocateur et érotique, une prise de position radicale sur l'amour et sur le pouvoir d'une maîtresse face à son amant. La quête d'un amour aussi impossible que l'avènement d'une nation souveraine. Une écriture souple et sensuelle, parfois brutale, qui met la littérature au service de l'émancipation amoureuse et intellectuelle."--leslibraires.ca.