Some encounters seem to be a matter of chance, but sometimes hide a much deeper truth. Merritt knows all about this. At the age of 30, marked since adolescence by an accident that had changed her body and her view of the world, she thought she had definitively given up on love. Until the day a fake piano, a guide dog and a man with a sincere smile called everything into question.
When an accident leaves traces much deeper than the skin
At 13, Merritt's life had been turned upside down in a matter of seconds. A neighbor had mishandled a gas bottle. The firefighters had evoked a miracle. But for her, this miracle had a face that was difficult to look at in the mirror: scars on her face, neck, body. And in the corridors of the school, eyes stared at her — or worse, that mute pity that sometimes does more damage than the cruelest words.
