What do we know about Algeria? What do we associate it with? For many, Algeria is a mystery, a land known from Albert Camus's books; it is also associated with dramatic news from media. But for some, Algeria is also a memory of youth, first friendships and love, a lost place—in a sense—but thanks to it also a dreamed-up one. This is the vision of Algeria that Tytus Grodzicki provides in his first book. In Deglet Nour, there is no point in looking for photographs that we know from the news; there is no point in looking for photographs depicting pain and suffering, despair and misery. Even if it is visible, it is just somewhere in the background. Instead, the reader will be able to discover the secret, observe the life of local people, and observe their daily activities. And then will find that we are not so different from them at all. We have the same dreams, the same worries and joys. That is Algeria that Grodzicki remembered when he lived there over three decades ago; that is also Algeria seen in his photographs taken after returning to the places where he spent part of his childhood.