Memory of a girl

And Annie is in love with H., with him she has her first time. A night that means a lasting shock. From then on H. ignores her, she doesn't know what to do with herself and gets involved with others. She is quickly ostracized. What follows is exclusion, the scorn of others, her own shame. And silence. It takes Annie Ernaux over 55 years to be able to face this "memory of shame" - through photographs and letters she writes about a time that burned itself into her body. That shaped and determined her morality, her sexuality, her whole long life. With unsparing accuracy, Annie Ernaux tells of her first sexual encounter - of power, powerlessness and subjugation.