With candid and raw words, bursts of laughter tinged with pain, Mathilde recounts the loss of her mother, the suffering caused by this loss, and the need to cope with it, or more accurately, to live without her.
In the present tense, Mathilde discusses this death with her father and grandparents, and visits her mother’s grave for the first time…
Mathilde’s story is intertwined with that of Simone de Beauvoir in ‘Une mort très douce’.
