In 2005 Nicolas Wild a wandering French writer found a job and somewhere to live at the same time. The only problem was that the place was Kabul in Afghanistan a country left unstable after several destructive years of war. When the carefree young man arrived at a capital in crisis his first mission was to write a comic book explaining the Afghan constitution to children. His second project was to work on a recruitment campaign for the Afghan army. Consequently he became a privileged observer of the hesitant reconstruction of the country whilst leading the unusual life of a Western expat in Kabul. Gradually he fell in love with the country and decided to extend his contract despite the risks of living in Afghanistan. Honest and perceptive inquisitive and unsettling this book casts an ironic yet affectionate look at the realities of a country that never strays far from the headlines.