In her story Ceremony, Yasmina Chami-Kettani, in addition to critiquing marriage within Moroccan society and demonstrating the aporia of male-female relations, proposes an interesting working of fiction. In this text closely-linked past events in which interconnected stories are closely or loosely related to death, death does not operate as a theme or motif; it revives fiction, nourishes the story and proposes a renewal of narrative strategy. This is why it is not taken into account as being synonymous with an end but with a beginning, a springboard for action. The mother, life, and death all intertwine, become knotted, encrypted and decrypted as places of grief but also as places of fiction rebirth.