THE WET NURSE

The wetnurse has swapped the babies. One alive child for one newly dead. Sylvaine's belly is empty and vacant, but her breasts are still full of white unctuous milk.Milk that is far more valuable to the world than her role as her baby's mother.Facing poverty, she has no choice but to pull her own child away from its life source and take in another woman's child in its place.One night under a burning red moon, deep in the forest near her rural cottage, Sylvaine discovers an abandoned baby only a few hours old in a clearing, and beside it, a notebook.She is compelled to take the foundling into her care and raise it alongside the one she is nursing.But when one baby dies suddenly in the night, Sylvaine decides to permanently switch it for the other.A mother for a mother. A mouth for a mouth. What appears at first to be a propulsive tale of the wetnurse soon enough gathers velocity, galloping between the decision Sylvaine has made and the lie she must keep and another unfolding story, one