Faced very young with a problematic identity in a harsh sociopolitical reality, Moroccan writer Abdallah Taia will testify in his novels for all the marginalized and voiceless of his country: prostitutes, homosexuals and transsexuals, black Moroccans and various exiles, giving them back all their humanity. In an attempt to break down social taboos, he will seek, by this militant commitment, to join the troop of the great literary and artistic figures who fascinated his teenage years.