La familia Martin

A writer immersed in a creative block decides to carry out a desperate action: the subject of his next novel will be the life of the first person he meets on the street. This is how Madeleine Tricot enters his life, a charming old woman willing to tell him about her secrets and wounds: of marriage and widowhood, of her work as a seamstress for Chanel during Karl Lagerfeld's golden age, of the disparate relationship with her two daughters. Valérie, the oldest of them and who lives in the same neighborhood, doubts the intentions of this writer, but decides that it could be good therapy for her mother. And not only that: so that she can continue with her task, she demands that the writer include her in the story she is sketching, as well as all the members of her family, the Martin family, crossed by both love and love. exhaustion from routine. Little by little the threads of all these stories are entangled in a skein of memories, longings, resentments, emotions that seemed lost and others that, hopefully, can be recovered.