Stand by Me meets The Arab of the Future: the bitterness of the end of childhood.

Early 1980s. Smurfeddine, Ghassen, and Farid are 12. Their life in a Tunis suburb consists of wild soccer games, their passion for Rambo and Michael Jackson, and rules violently enforced by a strict teacher. Full of resentment for their tormentor, the teenage trio plots serious and dangerous revenge… but wind up with Farid’s little brother Slim underfoot all the time. A coming-of-age story inspired by the author’s childhood: part youthful exaltation, part fate.