[2] The story follows an anxious, depressed woman named Christine as she works through emotional turmoil following the end of her relationship with her lover and first lesbian partner Marie-Christine.

It begins by detailing the events that occurred between December 25 and 27, ending with a physical altercation between Christine and Marie-Christine and their separation.

Christine then defines several words she identifies with, including incest, mental illness, paranoia, narcissism, homosexuality, subject, suicide, perversion, sadomasochism, nazism, hysteria, desire, and schizophrenia, respectively.

In the final and shortest section of the novel, "Valda Candy", Christine describes in detail her incestuous relationship with her father, beginning when she was 14 and ending when she was 16.

Angot often describes in her novels the incestuous relationship she had with her father, beginning when she was a teenager and lasting into her late twenties.

This relationship exists in many conflicting circumstances, such as "domination and compliance, coercion and consensuality, fascination and fear, and abuse and mutual pleasure.