The novel revolves around Nader Al -Shawi, the illegal immigrant who arrived in France in 2004 on a death boat coming from Algeria, and his son Khalil, the young lawyer and nominated for the membership of the French House of Representatives in 2035. Khalil discovers the history of his father who does not mention anything, through messages It is accompanied by a bullet.
The novel sheds light on a number of Arab immigrants to Europe and France in particular, the most important of which is the bilateral identity, between integration and adherence to the roots, the phenomenon of terrorism, starting from the Algerian black decade to the Paris 2015 attacks. It also reveals the ugly face of the illegal and racist immigration experience that corresponds to immigrants In Europe, far from the delusional "paradise" of the earth.