In March 2022, the author visited the artist Mohamad al-Roumi in his house at Valmondois, in the countryside to the north of Paris where, over the course of two days, a conversation unfolded about the artist’s career and memories, and his experiments in painting, photography and cinema. This was followed by a second long meeting to clarify details, which took place at the author’s apartment in the Parisian neighbourhood of Bastille, in December 2024.