Mémoire de fille

Mémoire de fille recounts the "first night of love" of Annie D., eighteen years old, during the summer of 1958, while working as a camp counselor. Fifty years later, having become Annie Ernaux, she returns to this event that she terms traumatic: the account of a first time marked by the difficulty of saying no, and by the confusion between desire, domination, and self-effacement.