今天的阿尔及利亚：三个故事，三代人。穆拉德，一位离过婚的房地产开发商，觉得身边所有人都在逃避他。艾莎，一个年轻的女孩，在情人和未婚夫之间两难挣扎。达曼，一位神经学家，在婚礼前的一天突然被他的过去所困扰。

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.

This is a brilliant surrealistic film.　　But also a fully realistic story about a time when the brave avant-guarde artists were trying to explore the unknown landscapes of human possibilities.　　The contrast between two realities the poor village and the dadaist artists is shown very smart and brings the possibility of changing the world by the art.　　Unfortunately, that progressive ideals of making the world better by revealing new areas of imagination, that ruled in the first half of XX century, were crushed by the war.　　And, the tragedy finishes the artistic ideals are dead, international art brotherhood also, but, as a real disaster Yugoslavia is also dead, as a country, but as an artistic vision of nation's brotherhood, too.　　So, the art falls apart

电影讲述了三个故事。在阿尔及尔，穆拉德是一位富有的房地产开发商，他或多或少对自己的命运感到满意，但他不知道如何让身边的人开心：莱拉，他困惑的前妻；拉什，他沮丧的第二任妻子；那齐姆，他的儿子。穆拉德的司机贾比尔已经同意将艾查和他的父亲从阿尔及尔开车送到比斯克拉，在那里，这个年轻的女孩将以文明的方式结婚。贾比尔正好是艾查的情人。在Setif，达曼，一个神经病学家，希望能和Radia结婚。但他期望的晋升似乎被永远推迟了。当一个女人指控他做了严重的坏事时，他陷入了双重麻烦。