The protagonist of the novel Zero Kilometer is Maëlle, a thirty-four-year-old financial director of a rapidly developing start-up company. She is extremely successful in the professional sphere, but this success is redeemed by the fact that she neglects other areas of her life.

The eternal rush is suddenly interrupted by the discovery that her good friend Romana has been fighting breast cancer for several months. Romana tells her that there is something that could help her in the treatment, but in order to get it, Maëlle must immediately go to the faraway Himalayas. During this adventurous journey, she discovers that Nepal and the people she meets there can help save not only her closest friend, but also herself.

Through her first novel, Maud Ankaoua offers us the opportunity, accompanied by Maëlle, to undertake this extraordinary pilgrimage for insight and a better life, and to discover the source of lasting happiness together.