L'Art De Perdre

Description: Algeria, where her family comes from, has long been nothing more than a backdrop of little interest to Naïma. However, in a French society gripped by questions of identity, everything seems to want to send her back to her origins. But what connection could she have with a family history that was never told to her? Her grandfather Ali, a Kabyle mountain dweller, died before she could ask him why History had made him a "harki". Yema, her grandmother, could perhaps answer, but not in a language that Naïma understands. As for Hamid, her father, who arrived in France in the summer of 1962 in the hastily set up transit camps, he no longer speaks of the Algeria of his childhood. How can we bring back to life a country of silence?