"He stared into the dirtied mirror. Beyond the grime and the cracks stood a boy he no longer recognised." Young Louis Comdeférre, upon being struck in the head during a scrap, loses a grand portion of his memory. He spends weeks as a passive observer of a revolution he once fought in. Slowly, he begins to recall his time with his small group of school friends, now revolutionaries, and he is thrust full-force back into a fight he learned to fear in his time bedridden.