User Reviews

An Algerian man leaves his Algerian wife and young children and goes to work in France. He sends her money every month but does not return for 48 years. 48 years! After 48 years she finally decides to search for him. Why it takes her 48 years to make up her mind to look for him the movie does not even try to explain! Receiving help from kind strangers, she manages to find her husband. The wife pleads with him to return to Algeria and rejoin his family. The husband offers feeble explanations for his 48 year absence and for his manifest reluctance to heed her pleas: his children will not recognize him, etc. She refutes his vacuous explanations, but to no avail: he decides not to rejoin her and their family in Algeria and even asks her never to visit him again because it hurts him too much! Perhaps he requires another 48 years of separation before he can arrive at a different decision. If this is a love story, then I invented the wheel.