The novel's protagonist tells us her story with her family of twenty-three members of African descent, living in a suburb of Paris. The novel embodies the feelings of a young girl and everything she experiences as she recounts her relationships with her sisters and close relatives, her mother and her father's three other wives, her schoolmates and friends, and especially her relationship with her father, who has had the greatest impact on her psychological "scars." In every detail she writes, we sense one scar after another, scars that time cannot easily erase, the result of her suffering with everyone around her. These fragmented details, like shards, are what she tries to tell us in an attempt to lessen her pain. But will she be able to heal them in the end? The French literary scene did not welcome this novel because of its ending, which is considered unsuitable for Western thought, particularly the way the young girl interacts with her father. But does this ending resonate with our Arab society?