įrom 27 to 30 January 2011, this novel was promoted during the 2011 Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it is part of the official selection. The comic has been supported by the French Community of Belgium. Maroh started the comic at the age of 19, and took five years to complete it. As Emma reads the conclusion of the diary, she remembers that Clémentine urged her to continue living her life as she knows it. Clémentine writes the final pages of her diary at the hospital, and then dies.
Clémentine's parents and Emma eventually learn that it is too late to save her the damage from her drug-taking is too great. Clémentine's addiction results in a seizure and she ends up at the hospital, where Emma discovers that she is not allowed access to her at first. Still in love with each other, they reconcile, but Clémentine is undone by her addiction to certain pills. Valentin ends up organising a meeting and leaves both women alone on a beach. Clémentine, who has taken refuge at Valentin's place, becomes depressed and addicted to pills. One day, Emma discovers that Clémentine cheated on her with a male colleague she angrily breaks up with her and forcibly makes her leave. Emma starts to become politically involved and takes part in LGBT activism, while Clémentine prefers to keep her sexuality private. Emma becomes an artist, while Clémentine becomes a teacher in high school. Clémentine's parents then find both of them nude in the bedroom and their reaction is violently hostile: Clémentine is thrown out of her home, along with Emma.Ĭlémentine then starts living at Emma's parents' place the two women subsequently get a home of their own and live there happily for several years. One night, when the two young women spend the evening together at Clémentine's place, Emma walks into the kitchen completely naked to get a glass of milk and Clémentine's mother catches her. Emma eventually finds the strength to break up with Sabine and starts living with Clémentine. Some time later, while the relationship between Emma and Sabine has somewhat stalled (mainly because Sabine is often cheating on her), Clémentine eventually confides her feelings to Emma, who, in turn, says she is in love with her. Clémentine then has to face the gossip and homophobic taunts from some of her schoolmates when they hear that she and Emma were in a gay bar together. The two keep in touch and become friends, while Clémentine secretly falls in love with Emma. The blue-haired girl comes to talk to Clémentine and introduces herself as Emma. Clémentine sees the blue-haired young woman again with Sabine at a lesbian bar. One evening shortly thereafter, Valentin takes Clémentine to some gay bars. Feeling depressed, she is helped by one of her male friends, Valentin, to whom she confesses everything Valentin tells her that he has already dated a boy, which Clémentine finds quite comforting. Six months later, however, Clémentine is unable to have sex with Thomas and breaks up with him. Unable to forget this encounter she starts to have doubts about her sexuality-but decides to date Thomas because she wants to feel normal. For Clémentine, it is love at first sight. In the beginning, Clémentine meets a boy, Thomas, who is a student in Terminale (final year of lycée, the French equivalent of senior high school or sixth-form college) they like each other, but soon afterwards, Clémentine becomes intrigued by a chance meeting with a blue-haired young woman on the arm of another woman named Sabine Decocq. The story then follows Emma as she reads Clémentine's diary, which tells the whole story of the relationship between the two young women from Clémentine's teenage years and her first meeting with Emma to her untimely death. Emma must face the hostility of Clémentine's father-somewhat off-set by Clémentine's welcoming mother.
After the death of her partner Clémentine, Emma goes to the home of Clémentine's parents, Daniel and Fabienne, in accordance with Clémentine's will, to request access to Clémentine's personal diary.
The story takes place in France between the years of 19.