Djamel
13세의 클로에와 12세의 조셉. 태어나면서부터 부모에게 버림받은 이들은 외부 세계와의 접촉을 거부하고, 서로에게만 의지하며 살아간다. 자폐증 증세를 보이는 클로에는 기괴한 웃음만을 흘리며 정처 없이 발길을 옮기고, 조셉은 그에게 단 하나뿐인 가족인 클로에를 보호하고, 어딘가에 있을 그들의 집을 찾기 위해 누이를 인도한다. 그러던 중, 마침내 그들은 보호소로 찾아온 어머니를 만나게 되고, 그들이 친남매가 아니라는 사실을 듣게 되는데.
Farid
Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
