The Bridge

North of France. Hervé's factory is relocated. He is the only worker to resign himself to it because he pursues another destiny: to become a fisherman and to transmit this passion to his son. Suburbs of Tunis. The factory is relocated. Foued, unemployed, thinks there is a way to cure his mother, and especially to seduce the girl he loves. The trajectories of Hervé and Foued are similar and answer to each other.

Maher, seven years old, walks around the neighbourhood and watches other children playing with their sheep. He is the only child not to have one and his friend laughs at him… He takes refuge in his mother's arms and she is also frustrated in the face of her neighbours and complains to her husband. But how can you find a sheep when you don't have enough money ?

Getting by with jobs on construction sites, squatting a flat with fellow illegal immigrants, Fed lives in fear of arrest and deportation. One day, he is offered a well paid job where he is certain to remain invisible...

January 2009, suburbs of Tunis. Four friends spend all their days in a neighbor pub. Football games first, then war images broadcasted by the little TV screen capture their attention and fill their boredom, indifferently.