A gunfire with terrorists hits ten-year-old Aziz. The parents, a wealthy Tunisian family, are shocked. The son needs a liver transplant. The waiting list is long and time is short, where to find a compatible liver? The father might offer himself, but the compatibility test gives an unexpected result: Fares is not the father. The couple already destroyed by pain now has to face a profound relationship crisis.

The Tunisian reality - political and social - which are added dramatic personal issues such as adultery in an Islamic society, are married by the Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui in the film Bik Eneich - Un Fils - A son presented at the 76 Venice Film Festival.

In Algeria, in 1991 the fundamentalist party won the elections. The victory frightened the leadership of the country in the hands of the secular and military elite.

The wounds of the survivors are indelible and are provoking another kind of tensions. It is the topic of the film by Les bienheureux - The Blessed by the Algerian director Sofia Djama presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival.