My ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their men. Badra is a young Berber girl from a North African village who is married off to an old man & brutally raped on her wedding night. She thinks sexual pleasure exists only for men until she escapes from her cruel husband to the city. Then she meets a handsome doctor who introduces her to a new world of sexual passion...LAmande written under a pseudonym by a North African woman living in France reads like an erotic manifesto for modern women who want to break free from the bonds of cultural tradition & unashamedly demand their right to pleasure.