Exiled from her country since her husbands murder ten years earlier Judith lives in Marseille with her three children After having refused to see her family for years Judith in spite of her fears and secrets allows herself to be influenced by her childrens wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousins wedding They set off to spend a summer in the old country discovering their roots and their past But Judiths return revives old hatreds between rival clans The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion blood will tell