The name of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), writer, psychiatrist and revolutionary thinker from Martinique, is inseparable from the Algerian war of independence and the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century. But who was this man with a dazzling destiny? We discover him here in Rome, in August 1961, during his legendary and mysterious meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, who agreed to write the preface to The Wretched of the Earth, his explosive essay that served as an anti-colonialist manifesto.

These three days are of a very particular dramatic intensity: while African countries often painfully gain independence and the fate of Algeria is at stake, Fanon, seriously ill, recounts his life and his struggles, unfolds his ideas, and contradicts the famous philosopher, accompanied by Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Lanzmann. Fanon and Sartre is the meeting of two giants, two worlds, two skin colors, two forms of commitment. But is the truth of one exactly that of the other, against a backdrop of friendship and possible betrayal? This graphic novel is readable not only as the intellectual and political biography of Frantz Fanon but also as an original introduction to his work, more current and decisive than ever.