This correspondence is a literary bridge between two worlds: that of French musician and journalist Ulysse Manhes, and that of Artsakh writer Hermine Avagyan. On one side stands Ulysse’s curious gaze, both unfamiliar and deeply attentive; on the other, Hermine’s vanished homeland. With poetic breath and the delicate threads of memory, Hermine guides Ulysse along the hidden paths of Artsakh—where the hues of childhood and the scents of her native village blend into the haze of war.

This book is also a chronicle, woven from Hermine’s luminous longing and Ulysse’s love for the Armenian people. It is a conversation about how the word becomes a homeland when the land itself is no longer beneath one’s feet, and how the meeting of two foreign souls can turn into a book that will live beyond time and across distance.