In this drama, Djihad, a popular musicien, supports his wife, his fundamentalist brother (who prays for all of them) and his brother's wife, with his earnings. In addition, they all live in his home with him and his wife. Moderate mueslims have always had a difficult time in Algeria, attacked by the French on the one hand and by fundamentalists on the other. It is just before the government crackdown on popular fundamentalist political mouvements, and there is a lot of conflicts in the air. Things take a turn for the worse for the musician and his family when he comes under a ban of censoring because his quite tame music video is deemed "pronographic". Before long, he has been beaten up by both the policy and the fundamentalists, an he has au pretty awful time.
Outside, fundamentalists gronw up and young algerian people go down in the street, on October 5th, 1988...