The book presents the author's eyewitness testimony of the state of total depopulation of the Armenians of Kessab that took place March 21-23, 2014, and its antecedent. Intertwined through the telling of the events and the description of conditions are the personal and public. Informational, historical, ethnographic data are provided with the experience and the reflection.
The author Hagop Tcholakian is well known in specialized circles through a series of historical-ethnographic, lexicological treatises on the Armenians of Kessab and Antioch region.