Saďd Meziane lives as an insurance broker in Paris and has a difficult relationship with his mother Fatima, who came to France from Algeria. When she suffers a stroke, she is paralyzed and unable to speak. But her Algerian homeland is alive in her head: her parents, whom she loses, her childhood as an orphan, the crossing to France and, above all, the mysterious girl in the yellow dress, who keeps flashing like a sun she thought was lost, and her memories to the full pulls through at the end.

Translated from the French by Schirin Nowrousian