Morocco 1999, a new King and a new government. The country is changing and the ‘years of lead’ are nothing but a bad memory.  

After having been in jail for many long years as a political prisoner and then placed for some months as patient within a centre for mentally ill people, Hassan leaves hospital with one idea in mind: to get his revenge on the person responsible for his torture in prison.    
 
    Jalal, a former retired serviceman, gets ready to travel southward with his wife, his sixteen-year old daughter and his eight-year old son. Hassan, armed with a gun, takes Jalal and his family hostages with the aim of bringing them to the camps where he suffered for many years and then confront Jalal with his deeds. Hassan is quite sure that Jalal is his torturer.

Jalal’s son, asthmatic, needs urgent care. Hassan agrees to stop for the night at the community clinic managed by Aissa, a practitioner and a former prisoner during the Sahara war and his mother, a blind old lady. The hostages spend the night in fear, whereas Hassan, confronted with Jalal’s family, the doctor’s comments and the words of the old mother, spends the night in doubt.  

In the morning, Hassan takes the hostages towards an old cemetery where some of his comrades are buried... and the journey continues between revenge and violence, between forgiveness and reconciliation.