On the first of November 1954, “Bloody All Saints Day” exploded in a series of attacks throughout Algeria carried out by what would later become the National Liberation Front. It was the start of the Algerian war. The first film made about this conflict became the first indispensable documentary about the Algerian war.

How to escape from the trap? How to fight the monster of need that makes you lose your human shape, that itch that you can?t stop thinking about and makes that you dependent, a prisoner of consumption, a slave to an artificial paradise? All these questions are taken from the books of William Burroughs, a drug addict until he finally escaped the horrors of addiction at the age of 50. In his introduction to ?The Naked Lunch?, Gérard-Georges Lemaire, referring to Burroughs, wrote: "..he was wildly interested in control techniques in the widest sense, from the Maya Code, which he discovered in Mexico, to the manipulations of the mass media, the CIA and different American sects?. William Burroughs is a tireless defensor of the free will of human beings subject to all kinds of coercive systems, some totalitarian, others more subtle, more sophisticated, that take possession of the human being through perverse and intimate channels: such as desire, for example".

A series of stories that offer us a glimpse into the everyday life of women living in France and Islamic countries through their own eyes, and show us some of the problems facing women in the Muslim world.

For decades, Nigerian icon Fela Kuti revolutionized “afro-beat”, a unique blend of driving funk and traditional African music that carried his message of liberation and dignity in the face of corruption. After Fela's death in 1997, his son Femi Kuti took over the afrobeat throne, and in 2000, Femi opened the New Africa Shrine in Lagos. A community center during the day and venue for ecstatic concerts at night, the Shrine is Femi's home... “Can't Buy Me”, Femi intones while the horns propel the music forward, dancers undulate, and the crowd finds release from the troubled state of the country in the joyous celebration...

France, the summer of 1944. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war.

“We were born into catastrophe and we have negotiated a strange and placid relationship with it, based on habit. A kind of intimacy, almost. As far as back as we can remember, there has been no reality but world civil war. We have been educated as survivors, as machines for survival. He have been trained in the idea that life consists of moving forward, advancing until we collapse in the midst of other bodies that are marching identically, that stumble and collapse, in turn, into indifference. At most, the novelty of this era is that none of this can be hidden any longer, that, in a sense, everybody knows how things stand. This is at the root of the recent, obvious, toughening of the system: their machinations have been laid bare, and it is useless to try and keep them secret...”