A young Arab boy, a teenager "Yaouled", who lives on the streets and scrapes by doing odd jobs: shoe shining, street vending, etc. The film tells the story of a group of yaouleds from the Bab-el-Oued neighborhood, caught in the crossfire between the French settlers on one side and the Algerians on the other during the events of July 1962 in Algeria.

• Centre Algérien pour l'Art et l'Industrie Cinématographique (CAAIC)
• Entreprise Nationale de Production Audiovisuelle (ENPA)
• Rachid Fares
• Fadela Assous
• Cherif Hadjam
• Djamila Haddadi
• Ali Meddah
• Raïhana Mekhalfia
• Mohamed Nacef
• Eric Haller