Synopsis

Jendouba, a small Tunisian town in the winter. LENIN is a 40-year-old cop. His life is miserable: He fails in his job and in his relations, his mother is forcing him to finish the family house and his girlfriend is suddenly leaving him. One day he crosses LALLEMAND (45), a small gangster, who has just been released from prison, and his girlfriend NOURr (32), a free spirit and independent woman. The two lovers from "The zone", a poor and shady neighborhood of Jendouba, are turning Lenin’s life upside down. Nour steals his gun and Lenin has to find it before his colleagues will find out what would cost his job. In order to find the weapon, Lenin is going deeper into the dark underworld of modern Tunisia.