The first edition of this novel was published in 1979, in Beirut. Its events take place in the months that spanned from May 1948 to the summer of 1949. They are the months that witnessed the great facts that the Palestinian people's catastrophe was completed: the end of the British occupation of Palestine after it paved the way to implement the Balfour Declaration; And the announcement of the Zionist movement is to establish its country; The first Arab -Israeli war. And if historical events constitute a background of the scene on which the novel focused on, it is the life of ordinary people who drew the details of the scene, those details that the novel was interested in highlighting the reader.