In the first installment of his acclaimed trilogy, Lebanese author Ahmed Ali Al-Zein introduces Abd al-Jalil Ghazal, a man navigating the labyrinth of his own memory against the backdrop of Lebanon's turbulent history. The novel delves into the personal and collective consciousness, exploring themes of identity, loss, and the haunting legacy of the civil war. Through Ghazal's journey, Al-Zein masterfully blurs the line between historical fact and personal recollection, questioning what society chooses to remember and what it deliberately pushes to the edge of oblivion, crafting a poignant narrative about the struggle to reclaim a fragmented past.