In the absence of men

For fans of Michael Cunningham and Françoise Sagan

Summer, 1916. The first shadows of German airships appear in the sky, and Parisian men go to the front.

For sixteen-year-old Vincent, who remains in the city almost alone, surrounded by excessive love and care of women, life looks like a real triumph of freedom. But everything changes with his first love for the French soldier Arthur Valles and his acquaintance with the famous writer Marcel Proust. And somewhere there, among the letters full of sensual secrets and the revelation of his first passion for a French infantryman, his path to adulthood begins.