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Estrée stops off on the island of Kyrra. She loses herself in the volcanic landscapes that gradually engulf her. A series of signs, sounds, and shapes catch her attention. Women make contact with her. They have invented a new language and communicate through sculptures. Estrée joins the group. Bodies are transformed.

The island of Kyrra was located east of the Greek coast, or rather west of the Turkish coast. In reality, the island of Kyrra refused to be located. The eighty-nine women who lived there first set out to invent a new language, the foundation stone of a new society. For eighty-nine days, they found and cataloged gestures, then the shapes that these gestures drew. They wrote them down as they went along on the ground, walls, stones, goats, bellies, and the island became an alphabet.

They started weaving a first story. Gestures and forms produced signs. Gathered together, the signs produced words. The rules were simple. Because the word is before the thing, it can create the thing as long as no other corresponding thing appears. The word cannot be said. Signs are not sounds, they are not gestures or forms. The new language will not be spoken and it will not lead to any form of speech. It will be written and acted. Only this. The voice will be reserved for singing, for shouting, for music, for simple emotions, for rhythm and melody, for dissonance. There will be instruments to accompany the voice. Instruments of all kinds.