The protagonist of “Chaos of the Senses” himself, the photographer Khaled, returns here, in the third and final part of the trilogy of writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi. But he is writing now, not the author, the heroine of the previous two parts. He is in Paris to receive a prize he won for a photograph, when he visits an art exhibition, and is surprised by paintings about the bridges of Constantine, which he discovers are by an artist named Xian, who are being shown by a French woman named Françoise. He soon discovers that Zian, the famous Algerian painter, is none other than Khaled Ben Toubal, the hero of the memory of the body and the lover of life (and, as a consequence, that Françoise is none other than Catherine)... He enters into a relationship with Françoise, staying at her house (which is also Zian's house) while Xian is in the hospital being treated for cancer. He asks him for an appointment under the pretense of an interview. Also in Paris, he meets his friend Murad, who tells him that Nasir, his friend and son of Si al-Tahir Abd al-Mawla, is coming to meet his mother and sister in Paris. Thus, by a strange coincidence, Khaled finds himself once again in the orbit of his ex-girlfriend, Hayat. But he finished with her, and now he is burying her by writing this book, as she usually does with her lovers.
