It discusses the pressure of colonialism and the spread of poverty, hunger, ignorance, and epidemics, where eating from trash bins and sorcery rituals such as drinking blood with the intention of healing were the norm in his youth.

He coexists with morally wrong individuals and groups, and grew up in a family, where his father was unjust and cruel, taking snuff and cursing God.

The violence Choukri grows up around leads to his spiritual, moral, and ethical destruction and makes him reject the traditional family system in which the father is positioned at the top.

His intense hatred for his father prompted him to replace his patriarchal society with a feminine one, and a tendency for violence and revenge was born, "in my imagination, I don't remember how many times I killed him."

[clarification needed] Choukri came to the city by force and not by choice[contradictory] while his father was on the run from Franco's army, and he is arrested and imprisoned for two years, which he spends between Tangier and Asilah.