At the dawn of adolescence, Alexandra Szacka is driven out of her native country and forced to renounce her Polish citizenship. She therefore becomes stateless for several years. Is this what gave rise to her taste for travel, this visceral need to always go further, to understand what is happening thousands of kilometers from home? We threw it into the mouth of the wolf, she thought. She chose to tame the beast. In this book, she recalls her arrival in Trois-Rivißeres at the end of the 1960s.