This story starts with a middle-aged man retelling a friend about a dream. In this dream, a group of dogs run through the streets looking for him, knowing they want to kill him. He connects the dogs with his own duty during his twenties as he was a member of the Israeli army.
This situation triggers the question in the protagonist's mind: why does he have all his memories of his time in the army totally erased?
With this issue in his head, he starts a journey to uncover the events that surrounded the massacre in a refuggee camp in Beirut and the role the Israeli army played as they didn't stop the rebels to kill the civilians, among them, women and children.
The colours chosen by the artist and the outline given to the characters emphasise this feeling of urgency; the fragility of the soldiers' souls; the craziness involved in the decisions taken by a few; the consequences the young boys have to face once the battle is over.
I highly recommended graphic novel as it deals with issues that the powerful do the best to hide; young boys having to face the horror with their own eyes; their lives never the same; never their own again.
Ana Ovejero
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