Traces

What remains of our memories after forgetting has done its work? How do we keep track of people we encountered and who were dear to us, the women we loved and the places we visited? How to extract those moments spent on nothing? How to avert the passage of time?

Reaching his sixties, a man decides to put on paper the fragments of his memories and explore the dust that has survived their erasure. Neighbourhoods of old Cairo, scenes of childhood, his encounters and the awakening of his senses and the author’s travels are found in stories and anecdotes that explore the nature of memory and consciousness.