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Summer 1939 - When war breaks out, Sylvie is marooned with her cousin Nell's family in the Chiltern hills and cannot return to her Normandy home. During the early days of rationing, blackouts, and the threat of bombers in the skies, Sylvie and Nell have to grow up quickly. Yet as the war rages around them, it's the competition and jealousy between the two that dominates their lives. When the girls fall in love with the same man, their relationship is truly tested. But the war pulls them all apart and changes the course of their lives – until their secrets are revealed.

Montréal, 1894. Anne Alarie, seize ans, débarque dans la métropole afin d'entamer des études en musique à l'Institut Nazareth. Aveugle depuis l'enfance, la fille du ramancheur de Saint-Léon-le-Grand se retrouve loin du cocon familial, et son arrivée dans ce nouvel environnement ne se fera pas sans heurt; la vie au pensionnat, l'enseignement des religieuses, les amitiés féminines et les premiers émois amoureux baliseront ce passage vers l'âge adulte et la métamorphoseront.