ثلاثة رجال يرون أنفسَهم أذكياء ومهمّين، وهم في الحقيقة بؤساء، سُذَّج، تستدعي مثاليَّتهم الشفقة. من العام 1958 وجوِّ المنظَّمات السرِّيَّة ومقاومة الوجود الفرنسيّ، إلى ما بعد العام 2012، المشهد هو هو: فساد وفقر وعنصريَّة متناهية ضدَّ اللون "الأكحل". ربَّما لم يعد أمام هذه الشعوب إلَّا أن تتحوَّل إلى هياكل للفرجة، صامتةٍ كحبيبة "نافع"، أو من دون ذاكرة كالبابا.
Youssef Fadel (born 1949) is a Moroccan novelist and playwright. He was born in Casablanca. He was imprisoned by the government in the infamous Moulay al-Sheriff prison during the 1970s.He has written several plays and novels. His debut play The Barber in the Poor District was turned into a film by Mohamed Reggab. He has written nine novels, including Hashish (winner of the Grand Atlas Prize) and A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me (shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize). Jorge Aguadé studied the diglossic language used in his works "Des romans diglossiques: le cas de Youssef Fadel"(Cadiz University, Cadiz, Spain).