Time Is a Killer

In the summer of 1989, fifteen-year-old Clotilde is traveling through Corsica with her parents and brother when their car leaves a twisting mountain road and plunges into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later, she returns to the island with her husband, Franck, and their sulky teenage daughter, Valentine. Clotilde hopes the trip will help her confront the past while also repairing the distance between herself and her daughter. She reconnects with her paternal grandparents, Lisabetta and Cassanu, members of a powerful Corsican family, and revisits the place where her childhood ended.

Then she receives a letter from her mother—as if she were still alive. As buried fragments of memory begin to surface, Clotilde is forced to question what she remembers about the crash and its aftermath. She saw the bodies of her parents and brother, yet the letter makes the past seem impossible, drawing her toward long-hidden family secrets.