The mountains of Kabylia, Algeria, 1939: twenty-year-old Adam dreams of building a home for Zina, the love of his life and the most beautiful woman in Bousoulem. But World War II has other plans for Adam. Torn from his home and Zina, he is forced to enroll in the French army to fight the Germans.
During the war, his troop is captured, and he is sent to a work camp in the north of France that is for colonial soldiers only. Adam manages to escape and make his way to occupied Paris, where he must remain under the Germans' radar and stay alive long enough to return home once the war ends.