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Hlne has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies Hlne weighs 216 she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hlne has one consolation, Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. Hlne identifies strongly with Janes tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hlne is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to allow her to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship. Leaving the outcasts tent one night, Hlne encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hlnes despair becomes even more pronounced now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her.