In this book, five different voices speak. Once, these people were one family—but in an instant it shattered—cruelly and forever, like a card house.
Catrin and Mark from the outside seemed like the perfect couple and equally impeccable parents. Yet beneath the outward well-being there were cracks: Catrin had long lost faith in marriage and sought comfort in an affair on the side. At first it seemed like a typical fling—until, as the mother of the family, she made a move that cannot be undone.
What was she thinking about when she decided to do it? Not about her loved ones. From that moment on, the five people dear to her—her mother, sister, husband, and two children—are left alone with their pain, forced to survive separately, and no one will be able to warm their petrified hearts anymore.