It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other girls whose secrets have turned their lives upside down.
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
A brother and sister pair of orphans live together in a suburban high-rise block. Each of them forges their own path. The brother spends most of his time helping his neighbors, while his sister is passionate about the theater. One of them lives closed off the from world in his public housing building, the other escapes from it by playing imaginary characters. But then one day, the brother refuses that his sister continue her theater studies. They then lock themselves in a painful fraternal battle, from which neither of them will emerge unscathed.
The Commune is a difficult district which holds all the records in terms of unemployment, drug trafficking and crime. After 20 years in prison, the charismatic Muslim leader Isham Amadi decides to return to his home neighborhood where he finds his childhood friend, now the local boss, Housmane Daoud. The inhabitants of the Commune have just learned that the dilapidated buildings in which they reside will be razed to make room for new housing. Suspecting a maneuver by the authorities to cleanse the city of its most "harmful" elements, some residents, gathered around Amadi, organize resistance. But behind this politico-media confrontation looms a latent and murderous turf war: the one between the two enemy brothers Daoud and Amadi, linked by a twenty-year-old crime ...
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