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Sami and Axel live in a housing estate in eastern France. Sami tries his best to bring up his daughter Lana, creating a playful and sensitive universe in the midst of concrete towers. Axel, the neighborhood kingpin, makes everyone smoke about his business dealings and, above all, his sexuality. These ordinary people live next door to each other but don't know each other. Yet their destinies are bound together.
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Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…