 Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month s holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane s promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.