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Algiers in the nineties, the years of terror. Mourad and his wife Rabea both have highly dangerous jobs. She owns a bookshop, he is a journalist. They have a little daughter: Kenza. Many of their colleagues have left Algeria. But they have stayed. Algiers is their home and they were happy there before the nightmare started in their country. Today, their daily life is made of fear and anguish. With his friend Kader, a photographer, Mourad covers the daily events for his newspaper while taking note of his intimate thoughts about his life and his job in a small notebook, his journal. He has stayed in Algeria and takes on the responsibility of his choice: to cover the unspeakable horror for the media. Forced to leave their neighbourhood where violence is increasing every day, Mourad and Rabea move to Rabea’s father’s house in the suburbs. Each day hoards its share of pain: deaths of journalists, doctors, writers, teachers, policemen or simple citizens. Everyone hides. People live as they can: an undercover life where moments of happiness are stolen to defy misfortune like the love that unites Kader and Souad, a singer he meets and marries. But their happiness is short-lived. Victim of a terrorist attack, Kader ends up in Paris, in a wheelchair. Mourad visits him in Paris. He meets up with his old friends Didier and Danielle who are warm and welcoming but very worried about him staying in Algiers. They try to persuade him to settle in France. But Mourad is adamant. Algiers is his home. After taking part in a Television show, Mourad goes back to Algiers. He is murdered the next day. Algiers 2007, Mourad’s journal is published posthumously: A journalist’s Notebook. |
