Content : Penelope, 16, has never gotten over her happy childhood, before her parents’ divorce. For the past four years, she’s been avoiding her father as much as possible — the father who started a new life and whom she loathes. In fact, she’s been avoiding almost everyone, terrified of being disappointed… So she tries to go unnoticed, hiding behind a sharp, biting humour.
When her mother, an anthropologist, announces that she’s leaving for a year in Papua and that Penelope will have to live with her father, 600 km away, it’s red alert! Penelope retreats into her shell and braces herself for the storm: a syrupy sweet father, a tyrannical stepmother, an insufferable half-sister, and a new school where she’ll be a complete stranger…