Paul Rognoni

Malgré la menace de mort qui pèse sur sa tête, Stéphane décide de retourner en Corse pour assister à l'enterrement de Christophe, son ami d'enfance et compagnon de lutte, assassiné la veille. C’est l’occasion pour lui de se rappeler les évènements qui l’ont vu passer, petit bourgeois cultivé de Bastia, de la délinquance au radicalisme politique et du radicalisme politique à la clandestinité.

Sartène, a Corsican village enclosed in the stone corset of a town, a fortress clinging to its mountain, is like an island within an island. The space in Sartène is shared, surveyed for decades according to an immutable rite and on the margins of the square which forms its heart, stand the North Africans.

Assunta is struck down by a sudden illness and is rescued by her neighbor, Fatima. The old woman survives but on awakening she discovers that the illness has brought back her past, scarred by the creation of the largest military proving ground in Europe which caused the end of her small community.