To Be Twenty in the Aures

A band of Breton conscripts, initially resistant and pacifist, find themselves deployed to the scorching hills of Algeria. Thrust into the brutal reality of colonial conflict, these young men are gradually stripped of their ideals and reshaped into hardened soldiers by the horrors they witness and commit. Yet one among them, Yvon, refuses this transformation. In a defiant act of conscience, he deserts, taking with him an FLN prisoner slated for execution at dawn. Their flight through the rugged Aurès mountains becomes a desperate journey—not just for survival, but a raw, visceral quest for a shred of humanity left in the heart of war's inferno.