Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.

由Ismael Ferroukhi等六位导演执导，以六个短片组成，每段都是一位导演的童年，每段短片到最后才会揭晓主角的身分，是部充满创意的精选合辑，也是电影迷不能错过的佳作。包括了《大都会》佛瑞兹·朗、《野草莓》英格玛·柏格曼、《大国民》奥森·威尔斯、《大幻影》尚·雷诺与贾克·大地，以及惊悚大师亚佛烈德·希区考克。

故事发生在1942年，巴黎沦陷之后，阿尔及利亚青年尤尼斯（塔哈·拉希姆 Tahar Rahim 饰）开始靠着在黑市里倒卖商品维生。常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋，在一次走私活动中，尤尼斯遭到了警方的捕获，作为释放条件，警方决定将尤尼斯派往一座位于巴黎的清真寺做卧底，他们怀疑清真寺的负责人本（迈克尔·朗斯代尔 Michael Lonsdale 饰）一直在给法国抵抗运动革命者提供掩护。 在清真寺里，尤尼斯结识了名为哈拉里（Mahmoud Shalabi 饰）的歌手，很快，两人之间就结下了深厚的友谊。刚开始，尤尼斯还会向警方暗中提供情报，但随着时间的推移，自由的薪火在他的内心里逐渐被点燃。

10-year-old Mica, lives with his mother and sick father in a slums near Meknes. He starts apprenticing for his father’s friend, a handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca. After going through humiliation and even being physically abused, Mica starts to understand his situation, and does everything in his power to change it.