“There was nothing, there would be everything. A man’s love for a woman can take any form, including that of a city. At the end of the 1960s, a French engineer dreamed up and founded an ideal city on wasteland between Antibes and Nice, near the Mediterranean. A “city of wisdom against the barbarities of war” that Pierre Laffitte dedicates to his wife, born Sofia Grigorievna Glikman-Toumarkine. This is how Sophia Antipolis was born, which has now become the leading technology park in France and Europe. But was there really nothing, where today there is everything? Retracing in Antipolis the birth of this city as crazy as it is visionary, Nina Leger, born in Antibes in 1988, gives us a third novel with telescoped narration, which mixes real and imaginary characters while exhuming the vague memory of a former harkis camp, Muslim soldiers who served in the Algerian War erased and trampled twice by history.
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