Maya, 12, falls asleep everywhere: in class, on the bus, at home. Because in her dreams she becomes Aminata, a heroine with magical hair, who fights monsters that imprison children who're different. In reality, Maya is the only black child in a white family and suffers from the gazes and remarks of a small town. Everything changes with a new charismatic pupil, who turns her universe upside down. Between dream and reality, love and identity, this novel celebrates imagination's power to overcome reality.