Roberto, a young Parisian revolutionary romantic, travels to Egypt in the last years of the Mubarak dictatorship, where he befriends an elderly professor, an authentic Cairo native, a lover of French Enlightenment values and at the same time an ardent advocate of Arab traditions Through a love affair with two women who do not know each other, a beautiful and radiant policewoman and a charming gypsy dancer, the reader discovers reflections on love and sex.
A thrilling novel in which controversy spans the pages of Egypt's history, the struggle between modernity and tradition, between communist parties and the Muslim Brotherhood under an authority that watches over everyone. At no time can preachy rhetoric impose itself on the passion of love... This story about youth is an opportunity to deepen our knowledge of ourselves, and worry for the future.
