Nada se opone a la noche

After finding her mother, Lucile, dead under mysterious circumstances, Delphine de Vigan becomes a shrewd detective determined to reconstruct the missing woman's life. The hundreds of photographs taken over the years, the chronicles of Delphine's grandfather, Georges, recorded on cassette tapes, the family vacations filmed on Super 8, and the conversations the writer has with her siblings are the materials that nourish the Poirier family's memory. We are presented with a splendid, haunting family chronicle set in Paris during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but also with a reflection in the present day on the "truth" of writing. And we soon discover —we, too, as detective-readers— that there are many versions of the same story, and that narrating involves choosing one of those versions and a way of telling it, and that this choice is sometimes painful.