Solange is an observant and intelligent young girl, torn between "school where everyone is obsessed with sex" and absent parents. From the day she has her first period, "doing it" (sex) becomes the major issue. Strategy, tactics, seduction, friends and confessions; her village becomes a Court, full of scheming and betrayals. The girls are nothing but prey to the boys. But Solange will find her own victim: her neighbor. She soon becomes an unscrupulous Lolita. Clèves describes a changing world, that adults either don’t see or don't understand. A beautiful, amusing and cruel novel.