The novel plunges into the heart of Algerian society in the 1990s. It retraces the stages of the civil war.
The heroine, Selma, 21, witnesses the massacre. What is her link with this humble village of Sidi Youcef, she who lives in the wealthy neighborhoods of Hammamet. The story then goes back nine years, before going back in time. October 1988. Riots devastate Algiers. Stores looted, administrations burned. Five hundred dead.