Dir.: Dominique Cabrera; Script: Dominique Cabrera, Louis Mathieu de Vienne, Nidam Abdi; Phot.: Hélène Louvart; Ed.: Sophie Brunet; Mus.: Béatrice Thiriet; Cast: Claude Brasseur, Roschdy Zem, Marthe Villalonga, Agoumi, Catherine Hiegel, Marilyne Canto, Slimane Benaïssa, Abbès Zahmani, Ariane Ascaride; Prod.: Didier Haudepin, Bloody Mary Productions, 124, rue la Boétie, 75008 Paris (France), tél.: (01) 42 56 10 70, fax: (01) 42 56 10 71; Sales: Claudia Rae-Colombani, Art Box Productions, 18, rue de Marignan, 75008 Paris (France), tél.: (01) 53 53 07 55, fax: (01) 45 61 27 97 .

Paris, summer 1994. Georges Montero, owner of an olive oil processing plant in Oran, Algeria, is a "pied-noir" (Algerian-born Frenchman) who chose to remain in Algeria after its independence in 1962. Now, while an undeclared "civil war" is beginning to ravage Algeria, Georges is leaving the country for the first time in his life, to undergo a cataract operation in France. His friend, Belka, a recent immigrant, tries to persuade him to remain in France. Behind his back he has arranged the sale of Georges' plant back in Oran. Georges' doctor, Tarek Timzert, an ophthalmologist in a major Paris hospital, is an assimilated Arab who has cut himself off from his roots. The relationship between the "pied-noir" with a deep affection for Algeria and the young "beur" who has never set foot in Algeria is an uneasy one and prompts some painful reappraisals of identity on the part of both men. "The beauty of Cabrera's film lies in how it shows all these normally antagonistic 'pied-noirs' reduced to the same feeling of impotence. A 'civil war' over there was needed to bring peace over here: a truth that is as senseless as it is pathetic." -- Jean-Yves Katelan (Première)