It's a house that looks like all the others in the neighborhood. Or almost. Their house has four bedrooms: hers, her younger brother Gilles's, her parents', and the deceased's. The father is a big game hunter. The mother is invisible, subject to her husband's moods. On Saturdays, they play among the car wrecks at the dump. Until the day a terrible accident disrupts their daily routine. Since then, Gilles hasn't laughed. She, barely ten years old, wants nothing more than to go back to the way things were. She wants to erase this reality, which seems to her only a rough sketch of another, real life. So she rolls up her sleeves and dives headfirst into the harsh reality of existence.