This is a book about the compromises we make with ourselves every day. A wonderful, sad reflection on progress and what is lost to it, as told through the eyes of a woman torn between her desire for keeping the past alive and the pressures for changes from without. The realization that by working on a marketing campaign for the French national train company, she benefits from the destruction of the very things she loves is too much to bear, and she realizes that she can only find peace in death. In French.