This project explores the loss of a connection to the world and the search to reclaim it.

The characters are engaged in a quest for freedom, but not in the liberal sense of freedom as the ability to do whatever one desires. Their search is first and foremost a spiritual liberation: an attempt to decondition themselves and break the chains imposed by the system. It is also a form of freedom that can only be conceived alongside the freedom of others, where the right of peoples to self-determination and the individuation of each person are essential. As Yasser Arafat once said, quoting his Algerian comrades: “We will not be able to say that Algeria is free as long as Palestine remains occupied.”

Malik Kara Ali uses the sea as a space of passage between life and death. Life itself originates from the sea, yet it is also an abyss that claims the lives of thousands of people attempting to cross it.

The choice of the zine as a medium, drawing on the visual language of manga, reflects a desire to engage with popular and immediately recognizable forms. By appropriating certain elements of mainstream manga, he first seeks to attract and guide the reader through a familiar visual framework, before leading them toward a more cryptic work—one that communicates primarily through images and representations.