27-year-old Nour (Ayoub Gretaa) leaves Morocco for Marseille where as an illegal immigrant he tries to get by with a gang of friends, until he meets a couple – charismatic police officer Serge (Grégoire Colin) and his wife Noémie (Anna Mouglalis). This chance encounter changes Nour’s life and opens him up to another way of existing. In three chapters from the early 1990s to the dawn of the new millennium, his fate unfolds through stunning cinematography, scored to the sound of Raï music in this eventful, soulful journey from exile to freedom.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.

Screening as part of IFI French Film Festival 2024.