D. Livieratos, tasked by the Fourth International to coordinate and successfully establish arms factories for the FLN in Morocco, recounts his own memories in this book.

Livieratos' book offers us the opportunity to read from the pen of an actor - and close collaborator of Michel Raptis (Pablo), the famous leader of the Fourth International - the way he experienced the events.

The work presents "flesh-and-blood men, passionate about life and death, worn from labor, who began to doubt the usefulness of this endeavor, who felt that it was not progressing, who could not see the end of this work."

It leaves, in the description of a revolution in progress, far from heroic and hagiographical accounts, a place for the tragic, for doubt, for uncertainties.

It raises essential questions about the difficulty of establishing new human relationships, new workplace relationships that do not destroy the individual in the service of the cause.

It describes the gap between the Algerian working class, which "lived outside the borders," "developed in a European framework" in "Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Frankfurt, or Cologne," and the "people of the mountains," which may help explain the difficulties of independent Algeria.

It describes the grandeur and challenges of internationalism, through daily conflicts, misunderstandings, rivalries, and misinterpretations.