“You have to come back here right away…” A voice on the phone that she struggles to recognize, in the dialect of Abruzzo. Someone close is hospitalized following an accident. On the train that takes her from Grenoble, where she is a professor of Italian literature at the university, to Pescara, then during a sleepless night in a hotel room while waiting for visits to the hospital, the one who had thought she might put her past at a distance by going abroad finds herself once more plunged there by the flood of memories.
