In the garden of her Parisian home, the narrator discovers by chance a modest tombstone. Haunted by the deceased’s date of birth, which except for the year, is the same as her own, she becomes intimate with a discreet and disturbing presence that settles in her life.

A century after Marie’s death, leaving Paris to settle in Quebec, the narrator feels more than ever the urgency to write in order to give back, fictitiously and with a moving respect, an existence to someone she knows nothing about. What to do with what is only a name but is nonetheless a life that ends in the middle of a war at the age of thirty-six?

Alternating between excerpts from notebooks written since 2017 and a story set against a historical background, La pierre au milieu d’eux tous is the imagined delicate portrait of a woman who escapes the shackles of early 20th century conventions through imagination, dance and the secret relationship she builds with her daughter.