The remaining of the unfinished project was a patchwork of the newspaper clippings, electronic and telephone messages, conversation transcriptions, videos, shot dialogues with his father, all of which El Khatib combines in a new piece of work, a hybrid of fiction and documentary elements. This meticulous patchwork opens the questions of family, the state, the mother tongue, as well as of the memories and of the grief. In the end, a moving autobiographic narration, at times cuttingly painful, but often also funny, subtly interweaves the personal with the universal. The renowned director Ivica Buljan emphasises that El Khatib "puts us on both sides of an invisible line that divides those who have lost from those who will lose their mother and suffer for it.” In 2016 the text was awarded the big Francophone award for dramatic literature (Grand Prix de Littérature Dramatique) and the current El Khatib's plays are frequently staged in Europe.