Algeria, 1930s. The wheat fields are shivering. In three days, the harvest, salvation. But a sad night consumes hope. Fire. Ashes. For the first time, young Younes sees his father cry... And Younes' life would be full of weeping. Entrusted to the care of a pharmacist uncle in a village in the Oranais region, the young boy integrated into the Blackfoot community. He forged indissoluble friendships, both French and Jewish: “les doigts de la fourche” (“the fingers of the fork”) as they were known. And happiness comes in the form of Émilie, a “princess” whom the young men fight over. As colonial Algeria lives out its final days, in an outburst of violence, heartbreak and betrayal, friendships fall apart and collide. Woman or country, a man can never forget a childhood love.