This novel traces the journey of Almanda Siméon, an orphan who will share her life with the Innu of Pekuakami. In love with a young Innu, she will succeed in being accepted. She will learn the nomadic existence and the language, and will break the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Almanda and her family will be confronted with the loss of their land and will suffer the confinement of the reserves and the violence of the residential schools. Told in an intimate tone, the story of this woman, which takes place over a century , expresses the attachment to the ancestral values ​​of the Innu and the need for freedom that nomadic peoples still feel today.