"I am someone who saw a child one day, a baby who disappeared. I am someone who knows a secret. I have probably known it for a long time, because it does not destroy me to learn of its existence. I am shocked, however, that my father says its name out loud: "the son of the Other!"
No one has ever done it, named the unnameable."
A secret haunts the members of a family torn between France and Senegal. But one day in June, the silence is broken. Thus begins a quest for truth where different
voices unfold. That of Penda, the mother, who opens up in a diary, and that of Estelle, her daughter, through cathartic delirium. Facing them, the elusive Éric keeps the confusion going with his promises. In turn, the characters untangle the strings of time and unmask the historical injustices that shape our intimate lives. In this polyphonic novel, we then cross the beautiful neighborhoods of Dakar, where dramas are consumed without going beyond the hedges of the villas. We also travel through the Parisian cities and squats. To discover that what seems to everyone the ruin of a family is, in reality, its redemption.