Omar Yami

In Paris, Ali lives with his partner Eric. They're happy. But one day, Ali receives a phone call from his sister who warns him that their mother had a stroke. Ali decides to return to Besançon, his hometown. But he dreads the trip because, five years earlier, he was rejected by his parents and those around him who could not accept his homosexuality.

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and finally overthrow the foundations of the colonial regime established by France in 1830.