On January 4, 1960, Albert Camus died at the age of 46 in a road accident. He left behind an unfinished autobiographical story, The First Man, about his childhood and adolescence in Algiers as well as his research on his father, who died during the First World War. Élisabeth and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud chose to adapt this text for the theater, while recounting its writing context and the tragic reason for its incompletion. They also take up passages from the Algerian Chronicles, which bring together various articles by Camus on Algeria, written between 1939 and 1958.
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