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Released in 2021, Djaffar Gacem's first feature-length film depicts a picture of Algerian society and the living conditions of the 1940s that preceded the massacres perpetrated by colonial France on 8 May 1945, a turning point in the Algerian people's struggle for independence.

The 116-mn film, inspired by historical facts of the 1940s in Algeria, focuses on the divergent views in society at that period.

The movie shows colonial France's bloody violence against Algerian protesters in the aftermath of the Second World War and the horrors of the massacres committed against the Algerian civilian population.

The filmmaker shows, for the first time in cinema, the use by the French colonial administration of crematory ovens to conceal the extent and barbarity of its massacres.

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