1 Marina.

In a small village of one of the biggest countries of Africa, Algeria, that suffered of the French colonialism , the grand-father left to France to seek a better life. But, because of liberty je had no academic education because of the French domination. He left his wife who worked hard to feed their two sons. When the elder son grew up, he got married at the age of twenty with a fifteen years old girl, an orphane whose father was dead when she was one year old ,from the same village. They gave birth to à nice girl in the en of 1972.

Ten years afrer the independence, juste two years afrer the birth of the beautiful girl, her grand-father came back to his mother country. Precisely to the village in a mountain. Then, he decided to take his family to live in the capital, Algiers, a coastal city.

Marina, a very young sweet girl wearing beautiful shoes, couloured red and white; was hold by her maternal grand-mother. The child looking at her family preparing themselves to leave the mountanuous village for a small coastal town, in Algiers.

Once she arrived to the new locality, she saw many people gazing at her. They were saying: " Her hair is red!" . She was frightened by the way they were looking at her, so ; she sticked to gown of her mother searching for protection. Every body was looking at that new coming family.

The mother was expecting à nice house where she could live hapilly, however once she arrived there, she was disappointed. "Put your luggages aside and start working", her father-in-law ordered. Hé brought soil and water he mixed them together to form a past. He then brought reeds with the help of his first son formed a type of barrier and ordered his wife and daughter-in-law to cover it with the past to build a wall.

The mother of the girl was really tired, first because of the voyage from Béjaïa to Algiers , second tired of the hard work she made. But, she did not dare to refuse or ask for some rest because both her husband and his father had severe temperament. She and her mother-in-law worked hard all day to form three rooms without even windows.

In that place, there were neither water nor gas. Women had to bring water from outsider, men had to buy gas by walking a long distance.

All women of that area had to stay at home to take care of their children. While men used to work as farmers. There were many neighbours who came from the same village. So, they knew one another.