Director : Pierre SalvadoriActors : Serge Riaboukine, Mathieu Demy, Guillaume Depardieu, Robert Castel, Marina Golovine, Patrick Lizana, Michèle Moretti, Julie Depardieu, Mohamed Damraoui, Patrick Kodjo Topou, Florence MasureFeature film, Fiction Production language : French Nationality : 100% French French release : 7/5/00 Runtime : 1h 35mn Current status : Released Associate production company : Les Films Pelléas, Agat Films & CieCo-production : Arte France CinémaFrench distribution : Les Films du Losange Film export/Foreign Sales : Mercure Distribution Synopsis Two cafes face each other in a modest square in the heart of a Parisian neighborhood. Here drugs are bought and sold. Deals enforced and slot machines installed.
Money changes hands. The neighborhood’s young folk are the main players in this dirty game; they make a few bucks and risk losing their lives. Mild-mannered Alain watches the world from behind his bar. He’s slow to understand exactly what’s going on, even slower to react.
That is until a young woman, Marie, bursts into his café and pleads with him to help her find the men who have killed her brother… Festival selections | 
