A screenplay on a 19th century European woman, touring North Africa disguised as a man. Isabelle Eberhardt rebels against her Russian family to explore the heart of Islam, dying in a flash flood.

Cette volumineuse biographie d'une écrivaine d'origine russe convertie à l'islam est écrite sur un ton "romanesque", tout en étant "scrupuleusement fidèle à l'histoire".

Collects the author's works offering a view of the culture and people of French Algeria rarely seen by outsiders.