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In 1968, Tobie Nathan was twenty years old and was manning every barricade. Now teaching psychology, he has been speaking with young people at risk of radicalization for four years, never forgetting the Jewish child he once was, fleeing Egypt in 1957 and ending up in Gennevilliers, a working-class district of Paris populated by migrants from all over. “Les âmes errantes” (“Lost Souls”) contains tales from Nathan’s own life and from the lives of young people who have become radicalized. In the course of these tales, he points out the blind spots in a society facing up to those it excludes.