In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
as Colonel de St-Méran
as Si Ahmed
as Le général Beaumont
as Béatrice de St-Mérand
as Le général Michon
as Le commandant Leteil
as Khédija
as L'aumônier
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
