Content : Colombe is 12 years old. She likes to observe others and can sense when they are hiding a secret from her. Her parents, who have just bought the Lake Hotel on the shores of the lake at Aix-les-Bains, are welcoming their first guests at the end of the summer.
Helpful and attentive, she befriends Meredith and Paul.
Soon, Colombe discovers, thanks to her younger brother Caspar, that the hotel annex houses a strange collection of odds and ends. In the evening, she likes to retreat to her nest-like room on the top floor, where a falcon sometimes joins her. There, dreams assail her, night after night...