In the mid-1980s, raised by a divorced mother, V. filled the void left by an absent father with reading. At thirteen, at a dinner, she met G., a writer whose sulphurous reputation she was unaware of. From the first glance, she is captivated by the charisma of this fifty-year-old man with the false air of a bonze, by his enamored glances and the attention he gives her. Later, she receives a letter where he declares his “imperative” need to see her again. Omnipresent, passionate, G. manages to reassure her: he loves her and will not do her any harm. When she had just turned fourteen, V. offered herself body and soul to him. The threats from the juvenile brigade reinforce this dangerously romantic idyll. But the disillusionment is terrible when V. understands that G. has always had love affairs with teenage girls, and practices sex tourism in countries where minors are vulnerable. Behind the flattering appearances of the man of letters, hides a predator, covered by part of the literary world. V. tries to break away from the hold he has over her, while he prepares to tell their story in a novel. After their breakup, the ordeal continues, because the writer continues to reactivate V.'s suffering with publications and harassment.
“For so many years, my dreams have been filled with murder and revenge. Until the day when the solution finally presents itself, there, before my eyes, as obvious: to catch the hunter in his own trap, to lock him in a book,” she writes in the preamble to this liberating story.