El país de los otros

In 1944, Mathilde, a young Alsatian, fell in love with Amín Belhach, a Moroccan fighter in the French army during World War II. After the Liberation, the couple traveled to Morocco and settled in Meknés, a city in the French Protectorate area with a significant presence of the military and settlers. While he tries to prepare the estate inherited from her father, ungrateful and stony lands, she will soon feel overwhelmed by the rigorous atmosphere of Morocco. She alone and isolated in the field, with her husband and her two children, she suffers from the mistrust that she inspires as a foreigner and the lack of economic resources. Will the selfless work of this marriage pay off? The ten years in which the novel takes place coincide with the unavoidable rise of tensions and violence that led to the independence of Morocco in 1956.