Hidden in a dark alley, thousands of kilometers away from her own home, Yoela watches two little girls and their mother. They are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, and her daughter Leah, whom she hasn't seen in years. "Leah was a little girl whom we, her parents, loved to madness. She was the love of our lives," Yoela thinks. What happened that we became estranged?

Through the memories of the heroine, Hila Blum (born Jerusalem, 1969) delves into one of the most complicated relationships, the mother-daughter relationship. "A great novel, a psychological journey with a lot of suspense that explores a great mystery: that even the purest maternal love can have destructive consequences" (The New York Times).