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In Saint-Louis, Senegal, it is customary to bring offerings to the water spirits when a child gets born. They traditionally make offering to the Spirit of the River. The building of infrastructures for water mastery has endangered the delta environment in the beginning of the 1980s. And populations are suffering.

The life story of an elderly Mauritanian woman, Aïcha Messaoud, who spent her whole life as part of Sheik Ma-el-Aïnïne's distinguished family of nomads and now lives in the small Moroccan village of Tata, in the northern part of Western Sahara. The filmmaker sets out to trace the memories of her heroine. Stage after stage, she travels through thousands of kilometres across the desert, encountering the descendants of the Sheik.

On November 1, 1954, two French teachers and an Algerian Muslim leader fall victim to a mortar attack near the small Chaoui village of Ghassira. This event marks the start of the Argelian independence war. Fifty years later, Malek Bensmaïl takes his camera into this region considered “the cradle of the revolution” and questions its inhabitants about their relationship to its history and language and to France. Today's students bear witness to a different age, the contemporary Argelia that can be glimpsed between acceptance and rebellion. Between memory, the present and the future. November 1, 1954 near Ghassira, a small village nestled in the Aurès mountains. Two French teachers and an Algerian notable are the first civil victims of a war that will last for seven years and eventually lead to Algerian independence. More than fifty years later, Malek Bensmail returns to this village, which became "the cradle of the Algerian revolution," to film this chronicle of it and its inhabitants throughout the seasons, capturing the present and the past. The Algerian heartlands, larger than life, rich, poignant, confronted with its future. ?