Twenty-seven-year-old Nour has immigrated illegally to Marseille. Amongst his friends and vibrant community of fellow emigres, Nour lives a marginal and carefree existence though he relies on petty criminality to get by.
However, after meeting Serge, a charismatic and unpredictable police officer, and his wife Noémie, Nour’s life is turned upside down. Hailed for its novelistic perspective, Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s second feature film takes us on a decade-long story across the 1990s as we watch Nour love, grow up, and cling to his dreams.
Taking the form of a triptych, Benlarbi’s moving epic goes from France to Morocco through its vivid and thrilling soundtrack of Raï music, whilst Tom Harari’s painterly camera captures a richly complex meditation on migration, exile, and disconnection.
Content Notice: This film contains sexual content, drug use, strong language, and explores themes of death and serious illness.