In THE FATAL BODICE, Lucile finds loads of stockings stored in jars. The neighbour, Hughes, paints her nude, but rejects her advances. Opposite in a shop window there is a bodice, an erotic artefact but also a symbol of constriction and self containment. in THE BUTCHER a young girl goes to work in a butcher's shop during her college holiday. Every day the butcher whispers obscenities into her ear, describing her imagined lovemaking. And as the summer heat takes hold, so does her lust. LUCIE'S LONG VOYAGE is about a young women off to visit a friend in the mountains. She gets lost in the high peaks and ends up living in a cave with a bear.

Isolated from civilization, she begins to live like a wild animal, and she and the bear become lovers. These short novels are all erotic, poetic journeys of self-discover y. Alina Reyes explores the mysteries of sexuality and the multiple identities of women.