Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. 2010. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.