This story is wrong on so many levels - a French pre-teen is kidnapped by the village idiot (or at least misfit) who literally carts her off in a trailer attached to his moped. (This, after sexually propositioning her mother and being rebuffed.) Oddly enough, she submits to her abduction as if it's all a bit of a lark. Once back at his pad (the attic of a barn, by the looks of it), he installs a primitive surveillance system and warns her not to try and escape. It's all looking pretty dark by this point, and we fear he will turn into some kind of monster. Instead he mellows and even shows her small acts of kindness, emerging as merely a sad loner. The power balance inevitably shifts - a kind of Stockholm syndrome scenario - and by the end of it, she is free. Was she smart and resourceful enough to suss him out and get the better of him, or just feel sorry for him? In any event, she comes out looking a lot cleverer than him.
Review of The Hussy
