Abraham B. Yehoshua is a writer of the generation of Amos Oz, Meir Shalev and Aaron Appelfeld, one of the most read in Israel and abroad and one of the most awarded (Bialik, Alterman, Giovanni Boccaccio, Viareggio, etc.) Israeli authors . Yehoshua's new novel tells the story of the family of a young soldier killed by "friendly fire." The father of the deceased is trying to find out how and who could have fired that fatal shot. Unable to bear the grief of loss, he leaves for Africa, to a remote Tanzanian village, where he joins an archaeological expedition conducting excavations in search of the remains of the predecessors of humanity.