After a long night of confrontations, a group of US soldiers stationed at a remote base in Kandahar witness a strange spectacle: what appears to be a woman covered by a burka moves along the dirt track on a kind of cart, using only the strength of his arms. Entrenched on the outside of the fort under a scorching sun, she demands that the body of her brother, who died during the battle of the previous day, be returned to her in order to be buried in accordance with the rites of her faith. Determined to carry out the mission that has been proposed, she refuses to leave that inhospitable place. The soldiers, exhausted and tense, will take different positions on the strange stranger: some distrust her, afraid that it is nothing more than a decoy for an ambush; others believe that a suicide bomber hides under the burka; some even consider the hypothesis that it is a spy. But what if the woman is who she says she is? Narrated from different points of view, this exciting and evocative novel by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya takes up the classic myth of Antigone to make a masterful analysis of the nature and nonsense of war, so that, through others, we question who We are really.