This book is a dialogue between photographs taken in Jaffa in the 1980s and a story that continues into the present. Several identities cross paths in a text where the narrator follows the traces of a man haunted by this place until he lost himself in it, revealing that becoming someone means being ravaged by History, and that one can perhaps only find oneself by crossing this dangerous pass between self and other, the voice of intimacy and that of the collective condition intertwining in a book where Jaffa, despite its illustrious ruined past, still speaks with force and poetry of people today.