Amira Ben Saoud's atmospherically dense debut is 'a novel written with an eerily calm soul about people's existential ordeals'. Clemens J. Setz Violence no longer seems to exist, climate change has long since taken place. A threatening serenity lies over the isolated settlement in which she lives. She has no memory of her own name. She earns her money by imitating other women whose relatives cannot cope with the loss of their lover, wife, daughter. During a new assignment, her world begins to falter: Who is this Emma she plays? Do strange phenomena on the edge of the settlement indicate its demise? And why is she so obsessed with being someone else herself?