One day, Yves Bonnefoy comes across an unfinished poem manuscript in his papers, "The Red Scarf." He decides to destroy it. However, half a century after writing it, he discovers buried memories within this poem: of the rural places of his childhood, of his father and mother, and of the "Red Sand," the adventure novel set in a mysterious desert. He wants to find out what has driven him throughout his long life. Thus, the urgency in the last book of the man over ninety: "It is time, now, high time, that I ask myself the real questions." What emerges is one of the most beautiful childhood stories in French literature.