Kira lives in a village surrounded by beasts. Life is hard, her father died before she was born, and she has just watched over her dead mother, waiting for her soul to leave her body. But Kira has a gift, she can make breathtaking embroideries and will therefore serve her community by repairing the robe of the “Singer”, an important figure of the village. She learns how to dye the threads with the plants that grow around her, but one colour is missing… blue. The quest of this blue will reveal secrets that will overturn her beliefs and life.
“She was expecting a child,” he said, smiling. He gestured with his hand, making a curve in the air above his own belly. In a dreamlike way, Kira felt herself, small, inside the curve made by his arched fingers, inside the memory of her mother.”