Ramses Kefi, a mother at sea

Salman repents: "I'm a sub-son." And he continues further: "I'm an ugly boyfriend." For the almost 40-year-old boy who still lives with his parents, in a room with Smurf wallpaper, his mother's disappearance is an earthquake. Amani left the apartment in the council estate where she has lived for forty years with Hédi, her husband. A departure without warning: like every Monday, she left a pot full of Tunisian-style red pasta on the stove. Only a brief note indicates that she has left but will return; she doesn't say where, with whom, or why.

Should the missing persons unit be notified? How can the gossip in the city be stopped? How can the despair of the father, who after one day takes off his wedding ring and leads a destructive raid on the apartment with a screwdriver, be contained? Salman will investigate. There is a story of a lost cat, a close and then strained friendship with a woman named Maria, and a pile of domestic disappointments for this retired cleaning lady. Amani, 67, doesn't count when it comes to