At the age of twenty-two, Loto and Mathilde are an ideal couple, incredibly beautiful, radiant, madly in love, and destined for greatness. He is an actor and playwright with great promise. She is a girl of stunning beauty, with excellent education, who prefers, sacrificing her dreams, to dedicate her life to her beloved, standing against a domineering and vengeful mother-in-law who does everything to break up their marriage.

A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends who are divorcing one after the other; however, it is a marriage on the razor's edge, characterized by a charged atmosphere, unspoken, guilty secrets, which make us realize that nothing is as it seems... Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two faces. And, sometimes, it turns out that the key to a desirable marriage is not its truth, but its secrets.

With shocking revelations, multiple narratives, and prose bursting with life and originality, Lauren Groff delivers a deeply enjoyable, unparalleled novel about love, art, and power. Deep, astonishing, dynamic, and emotionally gripping, it simultaneously stimulates the mind and the heart.