During a visit to the château de Cadillac, near Bordeaux, Joerg Huber was struck by the traces bearing witness to the building's history as a women's prison. The theme of confinement, both physical and mental, strongly stimulated his imagination, and he devised a work in which all sorts of women are involved: artists and writers, contemporary or belonging to history, but above all anonymous faces. In the form of diptychs, autograph messages of different kinds, from literary fragments to a simple call for help or cry of love, answer portraits. The book, conceived with the collaboration of Gabriel Bauret, contains many contributions on the theme of confinement (Anne Bony, Jean-Pierre Ceton, Joseph Hanimann, Ruth Henry, Catherine Sauvat).