Taj Al-Moulouk and Widiane are linked by the memory of a country, Iraq. Forced into exile to survive, the two women, who belong to different generations, have become friends in Paris, their new home. The same question haunts them: how to accept uprooting, the loss of the country where they were born? For one, by recounting the past; for the other, by keeping it to herself forever. As their stories intertwine, a nuanced portrait of the Iraq of the last century emerges... A melancholy ode to a country engulfed by the violence of the 20th century, this novel carries us away in the powerful memories of these free women.