After several months spent in a sectarian family of Christian extremists, a naïve young woman experiences the descent into hell and then rebirth. A captivating first novel!

This is a story about the controlling influence a fundamental religious environment can have on a vulnerable young woman. A story of awakening and emancipation: Sistine, 21, is a pious young woman. When she meets Pierre-Louis, she sees him as an ideal husband who shares her religious values. Their initial intimacy is an ordeal, but their first heir is soon on the way. After her son is born, she leaves her husband and takes refuge in a village in the south of France, discovering another world, far from the fear of sin.