The Avenue is the main street that crosses Tunis, from the sea to the medina. This is where, from time immemorial, people got angry. The Kasbah is the vast esplanade in the center of the Ministries, which has replaced a popular district considered too old by the authorities: it did not give a quite rewarding image of a country so new, so proud of its independence. It is between these two emblematic places that the upheaval of January 2011 took place, of which Daniel Soil was the witness. He was, before, during and after, amazed by the audacity of the rebels of this first "Arab Spring", mad with sympathy for these Tunisians mixed, young and old, urban and country. The novelist had no difficulty in creating a love in these circumstances, also revolutionary because he is fed by the social movement, his beauty, his inventiveness.

Elie, a young Belgian filmmaker who came to Tunisia, meets Alyssa, a teacher. The cultural barriers that constrain their nascent love – which is expressed and developed on Facebook – are shattered by the 2011 Revolution, in which they both engage. Accompanied by the background of the opera "Dido and Aeneas", we follow in parallel the evolution of their love and that of the political situation: demonstrations, mobilization of young and old, free speech, until the fall of the dictator and the advent of a hope for democracy that sign the end of the one and the other.

First novel about the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, starting point of the "Arab Spring", written by a foreigner who was the privileged witness of it.