In Algeria in 1956, the French colonists live lavishly while the locals are oppressed. Zohra Drif, an upper-class Algerian woman, plants a bomb in a milk bar, killing three women and injuring more. Meet the perpetrator and the victims in what became one of the first actions in the Battle of Algiers, a violent conflict that would last for almost a year.

In Algeria in 1956, the French colonists live lavishly while the locals are oppressed. Zohra Drif, an upper-class Algerian woman, plants a bomb in a milk bar, killing three women and injuring more. Meet the perpetrator and the victims in what became one of the first actions in the Battle of Algiers, a violent conflict that would last for almost a year.