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Ruby, a young lesbian photographer, whimsical, freedom-loving, eager for escape and new experiences, befriends a journalist thirty years her senior. While a jubilant relationship is woven between them, all in humor and complicity, they develop the project of going to Burma, which they both know, to make a documentary on the rubies of Mogok. They convince a famous jeweler to join their adventure. But before finding the land of a thousand pagodas, which whispers to the spirits, makes a pact with ghosts and conceals the most incandescent precious stones on the planet, they will have to face unforeseen events that thwart the preparation of this trip in which they hope to ward off their respective pasts. In his second novel, the author approaches Burmese culture today under the thumb of a bloodthirsty junta, but also the vertigo of the journey, the one made in the past and which remains anchored in us, the one we are delighted to undertake. and the one that we know it will never happen, a metaphor for life. Journalist at Paris Match Belgium, author of three other books, Philippe Fiévet has traveled through Southeast Asia, in particular Myanmar (ex-Burma). His interest in magical thinking and traditional cultures fuels a romantic vein where derision rubs shoulders with a poetic and baroque universe.