A macabre fortnight

Louise Cyfer works Endo, a peep show in Lyon. It is winter. His daily boils down to pornographic exhibitions and transferred to The Arcade Bar, run by Mathieu. Arriving from Paris, where she was hired in another peep show of the Saint-Denis, Louise found in Endo girls who worked with her in establishing then, Lola and Stef, the kind that make it great impression of their character and physical beauty: "Stef and Lola made me big impression and I had been vaguely disconcerted to find them in Lyon. "

Porn shows in meetings between girls with a drink at The Arcade or "spliff" in the closet during the break, Louise lives life almost normally without worrying about the next day, until Thursday December 7 when the director of Endo called to inform him that the box is closed for the day and asking him to come to his office for 20 hours. Pending the appointment, Louise took advantage of his time off with William, her brother with whom she shares a shared apartment, and later in the afternoon with the faithful of The Arcade: Roberta Sonia Said Mathieu with which it spawns every day.

At the agreed time, it is presented to the office before the boss who asked about Stef and Lola, their habits, their former relations in Paris. Louise remains on its reservation and urge a serious matter around the two girls. His interlocutor finally hands him an envelope, it opens soon see from the pictures contained therein Lola and Stef were brutally murdered, their bodies rendered almost unrecognizable ...

Besides, Virginie Despentes with this novel offers an entry into the world of prostitution, supported by a style where realism is combined with the poetics of the plot as it is practiced in the genre of thriller. The author adopts the internal focus and discovers through the eyes of Louise the underworld dimension, the dark side, the neighborhoods of Lyon, in particular that of Brotteaux. The narrator keeps a diary and tells each of his days in detail, throughout a period that covers fifteen. On the other murder, rape she suffered at his ambiguous relationship with passionate and yet her attacker, Louise spontaneously book, available to the intervention of chance, takes evil and transposing it into a written language fast, incisive, who knows how to translate the language of the street, the language of night urban jungles, and harmonizes with him in the form of a plea supporting the cause of women caught in the vice of male violence their own passions.