This paper aims to reframe the history of Moroccan anti-colonial narrative by examining Mohamed Berrada’s masterpiece, The Game of Forgetting. This narrative is a stark critique of the colonial and neocolonial eras. It traces anti-colonial rhetoric, with its nationalist fervor calling for Morocco’s independence and the co-optation of these anti-colonial messages in the new neo-colonial era by the elite whose governance perpetuated oppression, akin to the colonial forces, and exploited that nationalistic anti-colonial project. Through this work, I discuss the relevance of Berrada’s work to a solid understanding of Morocco’s colonial and neo-colonial narratives. Thereby, I argue for the importance of his work, its avant-garde and unparalleled status for its narration techniques, coupled with its detailed depictions of the struggles of the Moroccan nationalists in their plea for independence. This work, so compelling aesthetically, so revealing culturally, and so instructive ethically, is narrated through the character of Hadi, the protagonist, whose story tellingly demonstrates the complex ethical and political implications of the Moroccan citizenry and examines the myriad forms and legacies of violence unleashed and experienced in the anti-colonial years, some of which still remain hidden in plain sight. As a way of confronting an oppressive reality, Mohamed Berrada’s greatest accomplishment lies in the complexity of modes of narration, echoing the disarray and upheaval that coincide with war and anti-colonial protest, and pressuring the colonial oppressor for liberation. As the characters struggle to understand the implications that the historic and social conditions of Morocco have on their individual lives and world views, they also struggle to understand each other. Along with modes of narration, Berrada’s approach to memory is consonant with Paul Ricoeur’s critical approach in Memory, History, Forgetting. A significant part of Ricoeur’s argument centers on the identity of an individual being shaped by memory in a continuous fashion, making it so that a person’s identity is continuous. The narrative of memory, with all of its truths and emotions as well as gaps, inaccuracies, and fabrications, results in a continuous human identity, whether it be that of an individual or a collective. In the Game of Forgetting, memory seeks narratives, but memory itself often subvert the coherence of narrative. In short, my analysis of The Game of Forgetting explores forms of narration and memory and the way they are deployed to reframe the history of the Moroccan anti-colonial narrative.