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In Algeria, in the Berber mountains, a father finds a dying young man in the snow. He takes him home where this young man starts a forbidden affair with his daughter.

What does it feel like to live in France without speaking French? How does it feel to be uprooted and isolated when you were well integrated into the life of your native village ? Such are the kind of questions journalist Fatima Sissani asks her mother thirty-three years after she left her Djudjura mountains. Before her camera, Zahra tells her daughter things she had never said before...

The year is 1895. Albertine Auclair, a young French journalist, comes to Algeria for family reasons. Once there, she hears of Arezki El Bachir, a Kabyle Robin Hood-like rebel, who has recently been condemned to death. Intrigued by the motivation of a man who, for twenty years on the run, robbed the rich (French settlers and their local sycophants alike) to give to the poor, she decides to know more about this unusual figure in particular and the political and sociological situation in general.