After Montjoie III - The Hydrangea Villa - Suzanne and Nicole

After Montjoie, Suzanne and Nicole leave Paris for a few days in a house in Brittany which Suzanne still calls her cottage, and which Rozenn, who knows it better, already calls the Hydrangea Villa.

There they receive Célestine, a respectable widow who has gradually grown distant from her own body, and Charlotte, a lively young woman who knows how to be seen, though not always how to remain. Around them, meals, bedrooms, costumes and exchanged glances slowly begin to shift the balance between them.

Solid and discreet, Rozenn is accustomed to holding the house together rather than taking part in what unfolds within it. But certain encounters unsettle even the most firmly established roles.

In this secluded house surrounded by hydrangeas, five women learn how to give, how to receive, how to allow themselves to be seen—and how to let grow what they had until then kept contained.

Translated from French by Ysis