Rosemay disembarks from the train, bag on her back. Unlike usual, her father did not pick her up at the train station to take her home at the beginning of the summer holidays. The 16-year-old girl may call him, but he doesn't answer the phone.
The house is empty. The next morning, his father did not reappear. His mother, Marga, chats with her brother in the kitchen. When Rosemay asks her for an explanation, she tells him that he is in the hospital, suffering a stroke, as if he had gone fishing.
The first lie in a long series. It allows Marga to save time, to send her daughter back to her host family without her having had time to visit her father, Albino Rodrigue. Samir Guesmi and Romane Bohringer are this couple of adoptive parents, warm and caring.
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