Sea and mountains

At the center of Annette Lory's novel is the friendship between two women: Monika and Helen. Sea and mountains. As different as their places of longing are, so too are their inner landscapes, their emotional topographies. Monika, the seeker, and Helen, the radical. In their close relationship, they increasingly resemble each other and become "two shades of the same blue." During a trip to Greece, a sudden rift occurs between the young women, a rift that seems insurmountable. For a year. Then comes the attempt to bridge the gap that has opened between them on a joint mountain hike. That was the plan. But Monika falls. Through flashbacks, the story gradually becomes tangible. Monika, the first-person narrator, travels back to different pasts: her childhood in the confines of a narrow valley, the escape to the big city.