An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers him and his family shelter. While waiting to be granted refugee status, Abbas' daily life takes shape: his children go to school and he works in a market where he encounters Carole, who is moved by the courage of this man still haunted by the ghosts of his past. But if asylum is rejected, what will become of Abbas and his uprooted family? And what will happen to Carole, deprived of the home that she'd believed she had rebuilt with them?
Abbas flees violence in the Central African Republic with his two children to build a new life in France.
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers him and his family shelter.
While waiting to be granted refugee status, Abbas' daily life takes shape: his children go to school and he works in a market where he encounters Carole, who is moved by the courage of this man still haunted by the ghosts of his past. But if asylum is rejected, what will become of Abbas and his uprooted family? And what will happen to Carole, deprived of the home that she'd believed she had rebuilt with them?