Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…
Acting
Reda Kateb's silent defeat is devastating.
Direction
Tardieu traps you in Chérif's suffocating choices.
Director
Marianne Tardieu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures France's banlieue tensions without sensationalism, focusing on economic precarity over ethnic identity.
Adèle Exarchopoulos filmed this between Blue is the Warmest Color takes, pivoting from explosive passion to calculated manipulation.
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