Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history the visual artist questions the role of images or the absence of images in the representation of the colonial heritage of Algeria of decolonization and the dark years in short in the construction of his national novel In three separate chapters Katia Kameli delivers a reflection on the making of images or symbols the flag In the enlightened company of the philosopher MarieJosé Mondzain and extracts from films by Assia Djebar she begins a critique that goes beyond the Algerian framework on our relationship to the stories ideologies and images that shape them