Rome is celebrating Caesar. Wine flows, wreaths dry in the heat, and the beasts move towards the altars. Yet beneath the triumph, the city has already begun to change its face. After years of silence, Cornelia finds Lucretia again. In a house kept apart from the crowd, among shade, coolness, and chosen solitude, an old bond takes flesh once more. But Rome is coming undone. The streets grow troubled. The old protections fall away. And what first seemed only a drawing nearer becomes something else: a vigil, an ordeal, a passage. Around these two women, something begins to form — more alive, more dangerous, more vast than a simple refuge. A sensual, haunted sapphic historical novel, where the body, fate, and the fall of an ancient order answer one another. Translated from French by Ysis.