Nabisouberne. An odd name for an odd life. Page by page, the woman nicknamed Bisou (Kiss) takes us down the path of what is unspeakable for her. Of her childhood, where everything went unspoken.
Since her father disappeared, she has shut herself off in a deathly silence. Fear of separation and of the Children's Home is eating at her family.Somebody's going to turn us in. All around her, there are tussles and cries, total bedlam in the heart of working-class Paris, where she lives with her brothers, caught between the melancholy of a ruined grandmother and the devil-may-care attitude of a whimsical mother. For those who wear the invisible star of exclusion, daily life, between laughter and tears, reserves its threats and its hopes.
To break out of her solitude, Nabisouberne drops words along her way; the lines pile up, tethering her to others. One day, she'll write for all those who aren't heard…