Sea and mountains

At the heart of Annette Lory's novel is the friendship between two women. Monika and Helen. Sea and mountains. As different as their place of longing are their inner landscapes, their mental topographies. Monika, the seeker, Helen, the radicals. In their intimate relationship they become more and more alike, becoming "two shades of the same blue". During a trip to Greece there is a sudden break between the young women. A rupture that seems insurmountable. For a year. Then the attempt to close the gap that had opened up between them, on a joint mountain tour. That was the idea. But Monika falls. In flashbacks, the story gradually becomes tangible. Monika, the first-person narrator, travels back in time: Her childhood in the narrowness of a passage valley, the escape to the great Sta.