Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.

The King of Algiers

From Oran to Barbès and from Cheikha Remitti to Khaled, Hadj Sameer - collector, DJ and digger - retraces the tumultuous course of raï, whose hits shook the planet in the 1980s and 1990s. Between France and Algeria, a journey in the form of a mythical soundtrack, to the sources of a hybrid and transgressive music that never stops reinventing itself.