Heliopolis

Heliopolis evokes the massacres of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata in 1945. Heliopolis is the name of a small town 5 km from the town of Guelma, where it takes place the action of the film where was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians. On the one hand, Mokdad Zenati, son of an assimilationist committed to the theses of rapprochement with colonial France and owner of agricultural land, on the other Mahfoud, his son, with anti-colonialist and independence ideas, advocated by the political movement of " Friends of the Freedom Manifesto" (AML) by Ferhat Abbas, whom he joined, thus consummating the break with his father.