“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.
Sid Ali Kouiret
as Salah
Tahar Kebaili
as Mehdi
Mohamed Hamam
as Ahmed
Faouzi Kasri
as Ali
Med Hondo
as Med
Jacques Rispal
as M. Pierre, le concierge
Marcel Cuvelier
as Pierre
Pierre Forget
as Cecelle
Françoise Thuries
as L'institutrice
Okacha Touita
as
Catherine Rivet
as Catherine
François Dyrek
as Paul
