This autobiographical comic book deals with the situation in Belgium of political refugees of African origin. Judith Vanistendael has divided the book into two parts. He has clearly distinguished them, not by intercaling different drawing styles, but by approaching the narration from different points of view. The first part tells what is known as Sofia and Abú from Togo. They are the main protagonists of the story, but the author has told the love story of both from the perspective of the father of Sofia. Her daughter's choice doesn't like it too much, and she makes a big effort to keep the situation from going well. This first part is full of irony, and the reader will often smile, thanks to the occurrences and reflections of a man who has had a brutal touch with Homer Simpson. It’s great, for example, that my wife starts talking about Kosovar Albanians and she imagines the Martians in her head, as if she didn’t understand the reality that surrounds her… I stay with the first part of the comic book, especially because of the originality of the narrative.

The second imposes the vision of Sofia. Abú no longer lives with him and remembers the sweet and bitter moments he lived with him. The nightmares of the first part acquire a more tragic dimension in the second part, rounded up the book. The editorial Norma has published it in the Graphic Journal collection, which brings together the reporting journalism and the graphic novel, such as Brancaccio, which talks about the Sicilian mafia and which we mention in the number 2.280 of Argia. Two out of two. The collection looks very nice.