Merzak Allouache	...	(Director)
Merzak Allouache	...	(Writer)
Nadia Kaci	...	Yamina
Mohamed Ourdache	...	Said
Hassan Abidou	...	Boualem
Mabrouk Ait Amara	...	Mabrouk
Messaoud Hattau	...	Mess
Mourad Khen	...	Rachid
Djamila	...	Lalla Djamila
Simone Vignote	...	The aunt
Michel Such	...	Paulo Gosen
Nadia Samir	...	Ouardya
Areski Nebti	...	Hassan the baker
Osmane Bechikh	...	The postman
Fawzi B. Saichi	...	The shoemender
Fatma Zohra Bouseboua	...	Hanifa
Ahmed Benaissa	...	The Imam

Summary: Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...