Baby Face

"On the one hand, I was so open to this fantastical love, so willing to let the thread of tension bind me, but without any sense, the sum of bad things kept intruding, shredding the fibre of certainty...what happens when the fairy tale ends, will I start to hate him too?" Kassandra Rossi, a self-proclaimed dreamer, has just turned 29 and is suddenly weighed down by a lavish gift from her online student/long-distance boyfriend, Alexandre Arcand. As the weeks after her birthday fly by, her mind unravels, revealing her perpetual struggle to find harmony between what is real and what is make-believe. Although she loves Alex, more than she can comprehend, she frets about being in a relationship with a wealthy man who lives across the world; he's in Paris, she in Montreal. As the days leading up to their inevitable meeting creeps up, Kassandra spirals while trying to make sense of her feelings both through her writing and through some very vivid dreams.