Melissa Benyahia

After a 1993 crash, amnesiac Ahmed returns home bandaged. His child fears him, and nightly visitors speak in strange tongues. His neighbor makes him uncomfortable, leaving him questioning everything.

Suburb of Algiers, 1994. Anya, 7 years old, lives her life as a little girl, largely unaware of the tensions of the civil war tearing the country apart. She has only one wish: for her father, a journalist on a mission, to return in time for the Mouloud celebration. But the harsh reality gradually seeps into her daily life, causing her childhood innocence to waver.