After thirty years away, the Algerian filmmaker Soudani returns to his homeland, accompanied by the photographer Michael von Graffenried, who has long been documenting the open wounds of Algeria. Together they seek out the individuals who featured in Graffenried’s photographs, to find out what has become of them and what they think of these photographs. The meeting with the photographer and his pictures, of which they were not aware of at the time, gives these people the opportunity to talk about their memories of dramatic moments, personal strokes of fate, and the cruelty of aggressors. They describe their everyday lives in Algeria today, their fears, and their hopes. It is a film about the fate of human being behind a photograph, but also about the demands and the limitations of the camera, the use and abuse of images.
