Laudes-Marie Neigedaout, an albino foundling abandoned by her unknown mother one August night on the eve of the Second World War, spends her first few years with a community of nuns. But her presence among them is not wholly welcome, and in 1944 the little girl is dispatched into the outside world. This marks the start of what proves to be a lifelong odyssey that brings her into contact over the years with an extraordinary array of fascinating characters. She becomes the compassionate chronicler and plumbs the mysterious depths of the human heart.
