A transsexual teenager, under the Nazi occupation, brought up in a religious college for boys, in Caen, questions the conditions she has to undergo... Autobiography of a former deportee-resistant, tortured at the age of 17 years old, founder of a youth resistance group. She contrasts the concrete or conceptual hells with a living infinity of flowers, dresses, and stars.
According to Wikipedia, Ovida Delect (1926-1996) was a French poet, politician, and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo for being a member of the National Front, a movement created by the French Communist Party (PCF). She was tortured and deported to a German concentration camp.
After the war, she finished her university education and became a writer. In 1952, she met her future wife Huguette, a kindergarten teacher from Sarthe. They had a son, Jean-Noel. In 1953, Ovida read about the transition of Christine Jorgensen in the press and recognized the similarity between their lives. At the beginning of the 1960s, Delect, under her birth name Jean-Pierre Voidies, became mayor of Freneuse, a small town in Île-de-France. She transitioned socially into a female at the age of 55 and continued to live with Huguette Voidies, her wife, and their son in Saint Pierre Alizay. She died on 9 October 1996.
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