Ariane is a young woman in social and personal difficulty. She prefers to stay at home, until the day her best friend Sandrine invites her to her engagement party. To help her find her way around, Sandrine shares her location with Ariane on her phone. Guided by the red dot that represents Sandrine in the GPS space, Ariane makes her way to the engagement party. But the next day, Sandrine has disappeared. She no longer answers her phone. No trace of her. Except for that GPS dot, which continues to move forward and which Ariane will never let out of her sight...

Light-hearted in its opening pages, Lucie Rico's (b. 1988) novel becomes more frankly disturbing and morbid as Ariane follows in Sandrine's footsteps. Written like a thriller, GPS is more than a story about technology and a missing woman; it's also a contemporary satire, not devoid of empathy, on the virtualization of the world and our relationship with it. Published in 2022, GPS won critical acclaim for its originality, and received a special mention from the jury of the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste.