The Kampf married couple and their daughter Antoinette live in Paris in a luxurious house. They have organised a ball and have invited more than two hundred people to it. But Antoinette has not been allowed to take part in that event because she is still too young. This novel is the dissection of a revenge; a teenager´s revenge, a terrible revenge. But it is more than that, it is the photograph of the society of the so called new rich people but without any make up. Nemiruvsky was one of the most important writers of last century and she became famous for this book.
