The first time Mâelanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara's sense of authority. For her part, Clara was struck by Mâelanie's pink, glittery nails. "She looks like a child," thought the first. "She looks like a doll," pondered the second. Two women who could not be more different. Meâlanie is a social media superstar who broadcasts every detail of her kids' lives on a family YouTube channel. Clare is a young police officer, assigned to the case after Mâelanie's daughter Kimmy is abducted. Traversing the Big Brother generation, the social media influencer generation, and into the 2030s, de Vigan offers a chilling expose of a world where every aspect of lived experience and every emotion is broadcast, from moments of family happiness to the deepest and most solitary despair.--From back cover.