Nizar Sassi is a young man of Tunisian descent from the Vénissieux housing-projects outside of Lyon. One day he crosses paths with a recruiter for Al-Qaeda who deftly picks up on the boy's frustration with life and thirst for adventure. Easily lured at the sole thought of owning his own Kalachnikov, though not in the least interested in politics, Nizar ends up in Afghanistan in a training camp after stop-overs in England and Pakistan. At the onset of the US invasion of Afghanistan, he survives the siege of Tora Bora and flees to Pakistan crossing the Hindu Kush mountains by foot. He is arrested there by US forces, and deported to Guantanamo. This is Nizar's first-person account of his trajectory from an apolitical upbringing to imprisonment by the US as a suspected terrorist, and his experience in Guantanamo and later release.