Agnès is a dancer. She was in love with Guillaume. Devastated by heartbreak a year after his death, she decides to turn her back on her life and leave it behind. A long expedition by bus for an itinerary with no visible logic that will take her from Nice to Zagreb. 7 days. 1,000 kilometers.

In her bag she has Guillaume’s favorite book. The book, he said, that opened his eyes and confirmed his vocation. The book that she read aloud to him one more time over his last days. And the one that she wants to drop off at the Museum of Broken Relationships, in Zagreb, to free herself.

Being able to go on living sometimes demands strange detours.

In her latest novel, Gaëlle Josse offers readers a luminous and deeply moving text about a search for one’s self that is also a love letter to books, literature and all the paper lives that help us keep moving forward.