알리는 10년이 넘도록 정치범으로 수감돼 있으며, 가족들은 그의 귀환을 손꼽아 기다리고 있다. 그들은 이 정의로운 남자가 언젠가는 그의 포악한 형에 맞설 것이라고 믿는다. 성대한 파티가 열리던 날, 홀연히 나타난 알리를 아무도 알아보지 못한다. 오랜 감옥 생활은 알리의 젊음과 이상을 철저하게 망가뜨려 다른 사람으로 만들어 버린 것이다.
"Ambassadors" is a euphemistic name given by the French to Arab "guest-workers," or imported laborers. In this film, the Arab workers are shown enduring the difficulties of life in a racist society, as well as the hardships they impose on one another.
During the Algerian war of independence, one of the FLN's leaders was arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make the prisoners talk. The use of torture poses a case of conscience to a French officer. A play between the field against the field, between the tortured and his torturer, behind a stifling closed door.
An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals...
