Through a selection of family archive photographs and contemporary images focused on domestic spaces, this book explores the notions of home, belonging, and transmission. It reflects on a pattern common to many migrant trajectories: leaving one country, settling in another, yet investing — symbolically and materially — in a grand house in the country of origin. These houses, often oversized and nearly empty, remain suspended in time, echoing absence and dislocation. By juxtaposing inhabited and abandoned spaces, built here or back there, the book draws a fragmentary cartography of memory, where architecture becomes a concrete expression of uprootedness.