Join the director as she packs us in her suitcase on a voyage from Beni-Saf to Oran, Algeria. She takes us into the heart of a complex society caught between hope and despair, frustrations and contradictions – and along the way, she films family and strangers, like Rachid and Samir, who discuss 'Walou'.
I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything without my older brothers. They were treated like kings, while I was the ‘under woman’. My aunt once told me, ‘You like freedom too much’. What could that have meant? Algerians aren’t free? My aunt isn’t free? Guys leaning up against a wall, no job, nothing to do all day: I hated going to the bled because I hated their lives. In Algeria, people live on hope and regrets. What can the future be, stuck between nothing to expect and nothing to live for?
