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. ?