Enaiatollah was about ten years old when his mother left Afghanistan with him. The family belongs to the Hazara ethnic group, which is considered worthless by others. For the boy, the escape to a better life began, without his family. "Have you seen my mother?" he asked. The man replied without looking up, "Yes, I have seen her." He was relieved. "Where did she go?" he wanted to know. "Away," the man answered. "Where away? And when will she come back?" he asked. "She won't come back," said Uncle Rahim. Fabio Geda was born in 1972 in Turin and has written several books. At a reading, he met Enaiatollah Akbari, who shared his story with him. This is how this moving book came to be.