"We could write a story about an air force pilot. A general asks him to bomb a Palestinian camp and he refuses. Then, they condemn him for treason and want to shoot him. But in reality, instead of shooting him, they entrust him with a suicide mission. He falls in love with the chief's daughter. In fact, our hero is like in Blueberry, supports the Indians; well, in our case, the Palestinians. However… It's a shame not to do a western", explains little Pierre, Charles Berberian's childhood friend, as they walk through the streets of Beirut in the 1970s and fantasize about making comics like those of Jean Giraud, Hergé either Uderzo and Goscinny. An oriental education It unfolds in a Proustian manner, as a first-person evocation during the pandemic confinement, in Paris, when the idea of staying locked up at home reminds Berberian of the distant days of 1975, with the civil war besieging Lebanon without anyone being able to know how long it would last, and the comic vignettes of reality.