The music was composed for Wajdi Mouawad's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes.
Humbert and Cantat were also part of a collaborative project for Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad in Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle (known as Femmes trilogy) within the context of Festival d'Avignon.
The song is written by the duo members Bertrand Cantat and Pascal Humbert and by Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad after Mouawad cooperated with them in the album release Chœurs relating to his theatrical work Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle.