"I have often thought, while studying works on ecology in which lovers of the great outdoors and adventurous women set out to track wolves, observe mushrooms, marvel at octopuses or challenge bears, that if they had met my mother, they would have had an equally fascinating creature before their eyes, whose particularities have always placed me back in a familiar ecosystem, in contact with an intimacy as problematic as the one that binds us all together, without our understanding very well how, to the rest of the Earth's systems." Thus begins a major book about filial love, exploring the rich range of interactions and feelings that bind us to our mothers, from birth to death, including old age. Maxime Rovere develops a profoundly innovative ethical reflection that teaches us the joyful path towards reconnecting with the world.