What if we were aliens?

The Mulai have a strange society: they live in a community under a dome in the middle of a habitable zone with a radius of two fifty kilometers. Outside this perimeter, which only has scorpions or snakes, there is nothing: the atmosphere is almost absent and the average temperature reaches 63° below zero. They live in threes (even is worrying for them), copulate without intimacy and without vaginal penetration (and "either sexuality does not exist, or any exchange of pleasure is sexual" ), speak a language that is constantly evolving, do not appreciate writing in private, believe in a god called "Dog" and put their dead in the compost. They cannot feel orphaned because the idea of ​​paternity or maternity does not exist among them. Newborns simply integrate the group. Gender does not exist, it does not carry meaning... Who are these Mulai with extremely exotic customs in the eyes of the archaeologist sent to study them and write a report?

During his five years of immersion, Dr. Nahum Cordovero realized that his study of the Mulai "is in reality only a form of auto-ethnography. […] It is only in the encounter with the other that we are given to see ourselves." The novel takes the form of fragments composed of the journal and the report of this special envoy, but also of the stories of Mulai women who tried to learn more about the origin of their so