Masterpiece of the French cinema, denunciation of a social problem longly ignored by the French governments directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who won the Prix de la mise en scène – Best Director Award – at the Cannes Film Festival. In the Parisian banlieu, meeting point of different cultures and religions, three friends Vinz, Said and Hubert live their lives between poverty, delinquency and anger towards the police. One day the beating of their friend Abdel, and his possible death, causes an escalation of violence made of actions, reactions, sounds and images that will lead to dreadful consequences.