Djelfa, one of the saddest places in the world – this in spite of the fact that the town is in the mountains of the Ouled Naïl and is the center from which the Berber dancing girls bearing that name set out on their travels to gladden the hearts of men, and to which they return, after having earned their dowries in the brothels of North Africa, on their way back to wed the men of their tribe who are waiting for them.