"Algeria, 1958: my grandfather was Jewish and a tailor by trade. He had to give up everything."

When someone knocks at Marcel’s door in the middle of the night, he fears both for his own life and the lives of his wife and children. A bag is pulled over his head, he is bundled into a truck and driven into the desert. Will he be killed or released?
Three days later, he returns to Relizane safe and sound. His family wonder what his safe return means. What forfeit has he paid and who to? But he says nothing.
When a young Arab apprentice turns up outside his shop, Marcel realizes that sooner or later he will have to leave his country. But even in France, where he makes a new life for himself, he never gives up the hope of returning to his shop in Relizane…