Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.

• Comptoir Français du Film Production (CFFP)
• Abderrahmane El Kebir
• Pierre Mirat
• Ali Ghalem
• Álvaro Marenco
• Anouk Ferjac