تتحدث الرواية عن بائعة الخبز "جانيت فورتيه" ضحية الفجور والفسق، الهاربة من السجن بسبب جريمة لم ترتكبها لتبحث عن أبنائها. تصور الرواية المشاكل الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والقانونية في المجتمع، اضافة إلى اظهار أثر الظلم والفقر الذي يتعرض له السواد الأعظم من الناس.
وتجاوزها لعقبات أدمت قلبها الا انها لم تقبع باكية بل مضت في طريقها متسلحة بصبرها وذكائها وانوثتها حتى ملكت القلوب وحولت النفور لعشق ابدي… نسجت لكم خطاها
The life of an expatriate is a journey of pain and happiness, loss and discovery, success and disappointment. It is a painting in which contrasting colors, very dark and very bright, clash. The life of an expatriate is a journey whose end, according to plan, is a return to the mother’s embrace, the mother who carried him and watched over him as a child, and the homeland mother that contains all his previous memories, but it often ends with the end of the expatriate before the end of the journey or with the end of the mother. This book presents stories of the life of an expatriate that are almost identical to reality, and carry within them all those emotions that we mentioned at the beginning, and it has a tendency toward presenting the condition of the expatriate without adding the usual touch of romanticism, as it is, and without exaggeration or frills.
