It’s Christmas Eve, but the Algerian taxi driver living in Canada is more caught up in Ramadan. By chance he picks up a compatriot, a former pop star thought dead, and the evening gets more interesting.
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Hacène Benzerari (Arabic: حسان بن زراري), born in 1946 in Constanine in Algeria, is an Algerian actor and screenwriter. He is married to the actress Nora Benzerari. French teacher then production manager at the Algerian television station of Constantine (ENTV), he began his career in the cinema in the film Patrouille à l'Est (1971) by Amar Laskri. He then played in the film Chronique Des Années De Braise (1975) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, then in numerous classic productions of Algerian cinema on the small and big screen including the series Nass Mlah City (2002), Bab El Web ( 2005), A Story About Land (2015), The Bureau of Legends (2015) etc.
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