Pictures made mostly in the winter of 2020, while Peixoto was staying in La Grande Motte, the resort in the region she comes from. She puts the oldest question in photography at the centre of the book, which is light: winter light in the south is more flattering and more enveloping than the hammering sun of summer. The new town, whose futurist architecture and signage are built to make you feel somewhere else, becomes the set again, this time out of season.