Layla's parents are the most glamorous lovers in the world - or at least Saarbrücken's. Her Iraqi father constantly has new and spectacularly failing business ideas and at the same time promises his astonished family moves to New York, a house with a slide in the Tigris, a great future. Her French mother, on the other hand, comes from the noblest middle class, rebels against her parents' home and yet wears Chanel Nº5. Everything in this family can only go wrong, and yet for a few childhood years it is tremendously light and beautiful. Then the Gulf War broke out in 1991. Caught up with reality, Layla's father becomes a stranger. Touching, funny and deceptively light, Safia Al Baghdadi tells of growing up in between. New product