Les Petites Ombres d'Alger

In Algiers, the streets are thronged with boys. Playing soccer but also all selling anything and everything. The sidewalks are strewn with cardboard boxes, which these homeless youths used as mattresses. They live on the fringes of society, aimless and lawless, increasingly numerous, crowded into hospital maternity wards and youth centers, begging in the streets. But if we watch these orphans of Algiers, from the public dump to the port with its promise of voyages and exiles, we discover a sense of solidarity. A ray of sunlight preserved by a handful of men and women who have mobilized to aid the "little shadows of Algiers". The film follows a journalist who is researching a story on children in difficulty in the outer districts of Algiers. Questions, doubts and encounters that tell us a great deal about Algerian society.