Youssef, a nobody with tons of debts and nothing in his life, is offered a job by his uncle to oversee the construction of an elementary school in the far away rural town of Ragouj. He learns the good and bad of his new home and its people.

Helmi goes into a cave in the woods and gets transported back to 1991 Tunisia. He tries to communicate his situation to his parents and grandparents and make sense of his new life.

A policeman with a violent past meets a small boy with whom he undertakes a fantastic journey.