Camille lives with her mother, Maryline, in a mid-sized city in the north of France. Her father died years ago, the innocent victim of a stray bullet. Ever since, Maryline has cut herself off from the world. She can only function thanks to pills, and she keeps her daughter inside with her all the time. The TV, which is always on, has become a stand- in for the real world. But mother and daughter don’t watch the TV in the same way. Maryline sees everything as a threat, and her fear of the world outside her door grows larger every day. For Camille, on the other hand, a reality-TV show offers a window onto the great wide world outside her door, and helps her believe she can make her own dreams come true. On the day she turns 18, fed up with the toxic lifestyle her mother has imposed on her, Camille leaves.

The day she turns 18, Camille leaves home. A novel about running away, and about growing up.