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Dawn, the first part of the novel All People Are Born on the Same Day, starts from a precise and powerful idea: on January 1, 1900, seven children are born in different places around the world. With this, Max Gallo immediately establishes the framework of the plot - this is not the story of a single hero, but of a generation entering the 20th century from completely different starting positions. Among them are children born into wealth, into politically influential families or into socially privileged environments, but also those whose lives will be defined from the beginning by insecurity, inequality and belonging to the fringes of a world that does not have the same power.

The historical context of the novel is not an incidental backdrop but the main mechanism of the plot. Dawn covers the beginning of the 20th century - a period of industrial growth, strong class differences, colonial relations, imperial ambitions and the belief that the new century will bring progress. Gallo shows that people are formally born on the same day, but not in the same conditions: some are protected from the beginning by capital and family position, while others are shaped by poverty, social subordination and limited choice.

The plot develops in parallel, through their families, upbringing, first relationships, ambitions and first contacts with a society that classifies them before they can choose anything for themselves. That is why Dawn is a novel about the early formation of destiny: about how a century begins with the promise of progress, but from the very beginning produces differences that will later grow into conflicts, fractures and unequal lives. The titular "dawn" thus signifies not only the beginning of life but also the beginning of a world that shapes its heroes unequally from the first day.