After years of diligent, uncomplain-ing toil on the Renault assembly line, Mohammed has retired. But life at home in the Yvelines housing project, on the outskirts of Paris, is suddenly empty: his sons and daughters ignore him, and seem from another world. "My children have Arab features and gestures, but they claim they are 'assimilated', a word I've never understood." Only Nabile, the Down's syndrome nephew he treats as a son, gives Mohammed constant delight and unquestioning love.
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