A terrible thing happens to the famous writer Flora Conway – one day, after a game of hide-and-seek, her little daughter Carrie disappears without a trace from her apartment in Brooklyn. The police have no leads or leads. After months of anxious waiting and strange coincidences, the heartbroken Flora begins to suspect that someone is behind this whole story, who has thought out the crime to the smallest detail.Across the ocean, in Paris, shattered by life's troubles and the flu, the novelist Romain Ozorsky freezes in front of a flickering blue screen, suddenly feeling that fiction has become more real to him than life itself. He is the only one who knows the answers to the most terrible questions, and Flora will have to face him face to face.