This novel could not have been a saga covering several generations of women from the same family, but the purpose of Anne Lemieux was to attract the reader about the toll that war and especially here, the World. Le Vernet captain is killed, and women and girls are sentenced to 7 years of mourning: childhood, adolescence faded. Moving to a life of adult and responsible woman will be difficult for them as men who live alongside them will be that "man dressed in women." Fortunately all is not black, and the author of the will we feel out all scratched by the life of one who wants eternal mourning