I found the story engrossing and it kept me awake on the drive from Portland to San Francisco. However, I would advise you not to buy the audio version. I don't know if it was the idea of the director or the narrator, but the the story is narrated in an unconvincing fake French accent (in dialogue). It gets worse when the male narrator continues to narrate the central female character in his best female French accent. The fun doesn't stop as the narrator acts out the female character as a 9 year old girl, and carries on a schizophrenic dialogue between the French woman and her French grandmother. Ridiculous!!