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This article examines the unconscious logic behind the lies of certain children and adolescents, based on the hypothesis that they unknowingly act out the failures of their bonds with their attachment objects. A case study of an adolescent who falsely accused her father of sexual assault provides a better understanding of how the lies of some children and adolescents unconsciously communicate their sense of betrayal. By lying to the people in their environment, these young people unwittingly denounce the family alliance system of which they are prisoners. Their act calls out to third parties, while at the same time reversing the situation of betrayal and suffocation in which they find themselves. The text thus tends to show that lying is to be considered as an act through which the subject communicates the reasons for a suffering that cannot be expressed.