L'autre côté de la mer (The Other Shore)

Paris, summer 1994. Georges Montero, the owner of an olive oil mill in Oran, is a pied noir (Algerian born Frenchman) who chose to remain in Algeria after its independence in 1962. Today, Georges comes to France for the first time in his life for a cataract operation - at the very moment that civil war is just beginning to take its bloody toil back home. His friend Belka, a recent emigrant, tries to persuade him to remain in France. Behind his back, he has arranged the sale of Georges’ mill in Oran. His surgeon, Tarek, ophthalmologist in a major Paris hospital, is an assimilated Arab who has cut off from his roots. The contact between them brings George to make a decision between staying or going back to Oran.