Depois de passar doze anos na prisão, o ativista político Ali volta para casa. Sua família espera ansiosamente por ele, com esperança de que os vá salvar da tirania de seu irmão mais velho, Tolba. Porém, eles logo percebem que a moral e o idealismo de Ali deram lugar à conformidade e apatia.
"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...
