Diagnosed with breast cancer at 41, Anne Boyer began a heavy chemotherapy cycle and had to undergo a double mastectomy. In this book, divided into four parts, memoir, poetry, documentation, and autotheory, the author shares her medical journey with us in her sensitive, intimate, critical, and rebellious voice. She references excerpts from authors who died of breast cancer and adds her own experience. She describes the medical system, its machines, its names, and its abbreviations, in such a way that reality tends to become science fiction. She places us in a powerful setting where we cannot remain distant and draws us into her story as frightened spectators of a demonic machinery vibrating between life and death. The anguish of the disease, seen and recounted through the internet and our connected era, is omnipresent. She describes the pain, the inhumanity, the erasure of the person to become the disease itself. “We no longer look like people: we look like cancer patients. We look like a disease before we look like ourselves.”