The Cousins

Thus begin Goutou's life and her fear of the dark. For Goutu, darkness is death, light is life. Throughout her life, as Goutu grows from childhood through adolescence to adulthood and then old age, she remains a fighter, a rebel, a liar for whom lying becomes a strategy for survival, a woman who will not deny her sexuality, a mother who remains something of an enigma for her daughters, a wife whose husband never really understand her.