Es domingo y Olga se aburre. Decide salir a comprar cuernitos, pero la panadería queda del otro lado de la avenida y Olga no tiene permiso para cruzarla. Cuando regresa, su papá la está esperando con cara de furia y la encierra en su cuarto todo el día. Pero no se queda tranquila, se le van ocurriendo ideas para remontar ese día en compañía de su hermana Esther.
Geneviève Brisac is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1996, for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text." She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009). Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.