After the success of Otages, Nina Bouraoui brings to life a new, radiant female voice, that of Madame Akli.
For the love of Brahim, her husband, Madame Akli settled in Algiers after the war for independence. With their son, they live in a house in the city heights: it is there that her identical days flow into weeks, there where she spends hours in her garden taking care of her favorite flower, there where she waits the return of her husband from his paper factory and her son from school.
In a diary, she writes what she can't say to anyone: that she is no longer the freshly arrived young woman full of love and dreams, that maybe she chose the wrong life, that she finds herself hoping for, and fearing, an encounter, a revolution, that she dreams of escaping or becoming someone else. What holds her back is the love she has for her son and for the countryside of this chosen place: the cliffs, the fiery mountains, the sea, the desert-
