In Algiers, two inseparable teenagers wrestle with brotherhood, friendship, and the weight of absent siblings, their laughter concealing a fragile future shadowed by borders and uncertainty.
Sifou and Mahrez, seventeen and inseparable, spend their days by the port of Algiers, killing time between odd jobs, jokes, and silence. Yet behind their laughter lies the unspoken weight of absent brothers who crossed the sea to Europe. Through stillness and fleeting rhythm, their story reflects the pervasive fatalism of Algerian youth, caught between the wreckage of their neighbourhood and an uncertain horizon. A contemplation on borders both visible and invisible, it captures the fragile line between recklessness and despair.