For a very small salary, Alice, a young parliamentary attaché in Paris, has let herself be mistreated for too long. A painful realization that drives her to leave everything behind and take refuge in the Basque Country. In the village where her parents inherited a house, she reconnects with her roots. She thinks back to her aunt who disappeared one night twenty years ago in the village. No one never knew what happened to her. Alice feels the need to shed light on this event that marked her childhood. But in Saint-Just, where secrets prevail, her presence disturbs, she feels that she's unwanted. However, she will do Diane justice no matter the cost.
Cécile Cabanac was a TV journalist for seventeen years. Doomed to Cry is her fifth novel.