In the 1940s and 1950s and during the French colonization of Tunisia, a woman from an Italian Jewish family converted to Islam and married at the time in the right arm of activist Salah Ben Youssef. will later oppose the leader Habib Bourguiba. The woman ESTER (who will become HÉDIA) tells her story via an exciting journey, witness to several events and which ends in a conflict with her son Mohamed David Soninno who is in continuous search for his Jewish origins .