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Your father just died. He was respected in the neighborhood, generous with neighbours, pillar of the mosque. But by settling his estate, you discover the real origin of his fortune: the embezzlement of public funds carried out over twenty years within a national government. Millions stolen from the state. To hospitals without medication. To schools without tables.
You're the eldest. Your mother is a widow. Your brothers and sisters are waiting. The inheritance represents the family home, three plots, two shops and savings that would guarantee the future of an entire family.
Accepting is building your life on fraud. It is to benefit from what has been taken away from the people. It's also, perhaps, honoring the memory of a father you loved despite everything.
Refusing or returning is ruining your family, humiliating your mother, and opening a wound that won't close. It is also, perhaps, a peace that the stolen money can never bring.
What are you doing?
- Accept the legacy and quietly rebuild, hoping that the good you will do will erase the evil of its origin.
- Refuse or return Essentially, at the cost of family ruin and a truth that nobody wanted to hear.
