Three women from different eras and societies soliloquize and their voices overlap through time and space. Sei Shonagon is a Japanese in the 11th century Kyoto, Apronenia Avitia is a Roman of the 3rd century A.D., and Valentine Valentin a modern young Parisian of the 1990s. The observations of Sei Shonagon are extracted from her diary, “Makurs no soshi.” French writer Pascal Quignard is the author of the fictious Apronenia Avitia´s “The Wooden Tablets of A.A.” The three women share with us their fleeting observations, intimate thoughts and narcissistic obsessions. A collage of different literary forms, from simple enumerations to haiku, in which the common denominator is the male – the absent male...