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“Algerian kid wants to go looking for the father he doesn’t know in Marseilles. Meandering between fantasy and reality, Belouad creates a convincing picture of the terrifying situation in Bejaia and the bleak outlook in Marseilles.” - MUBI
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Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.