When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.

Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother’s foot steps to follow – the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.