The dismay of North Africans living in France in the 1980s. For the girls, born for the most part in France and attending French schools, they experience the difficulty of understanding and adapting for their parents in the face of this new world, these new mores, relegated among themselves to housing projects, HLM breeding grounds of economic cannon fodder. Jamila has a French friend who bursts into her family with his culture. From this situation arises misunderstandings and unease, which widen the gap between parents and their daughter. A story where tenderness, heartbreak and suffering combine.

Old buddies Eric, Jean and Karim have never really grown up. Spending their listless days and nights in the same Lyon suburb where they were raised, the men are always looking for distractions. So when Jean steals a television camera one afternoon, the trio decide to head into the city in the hopes of pawning it. But their funny idea of an adventure turns out to be a ticket into trouble.