Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire smooth & brown as a sunning snake
- but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise a secretive widow plies her culinary trade at the creperie
- & lets her memory play strange games. As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back & expose a past full of betrayal blackmail & lies.