It's summer, with a family holiday by the sea and summer romance. It's Anais' first experience of love but she makes this discovery by proxy.

She observes her older sister, Elena, whom she loves (and hates). Elena is fifteen and diabolically beautiful. She is neither more futile nor more stupid then her younger sister, but she doesn't realise that she is no more than an object of desire. And, as an object, all she can do is to be taken . Or be had.

Indeed, this is the subject, the loss of girls' virginity. And which opens the door to tragedy that summer.