Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Not that she's
sure exactly when to celebrate it, since her Algerian identity
papers state a different date of birth to her French ones. These
days, Yamina strives for a quiet life and to be, at best,
invisible. The closest she gets to drama is flashing her
pensioner's bus pass in the style of police officers she's seen on
television or scooping 'revolutionary' bargains in the form of
plastic kitchenware gadgets. But Yamina's children feel
differently. They are made to feel out of place in Paris, and it
hurts. Then, for the first time in forty years, the whole family
take a holiday from the city - not a return trip to the motherland,
but a holiday in France. In the privacy of their villa-with-pool
rental, it becomes clear to them all: there is no 'going back'.
Alternating fragments from Yamina's Algerian past with those of her
Paris present, Discretion spans the history of colonial conflict
from the Second World War to the present day. A tribute to mothers
everywhere, it is also the story of a modern French family feeling
their way through the puzzle of their history - and finding one
another as they go along.
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