Kais Nashef

Summer in L.A., it's hot. Homeland Security has set the threat level at red; they're searching for several Arabs alleged to be terrorists. Mustafa, an Egyptian immigrant who runs a falafel shop, comes to the FBI's attention; they investigate him. He has other problems: his young teen son no longer wants to be a Muslim; his sister, a nurse, objects to Mustafa arranging her marriage to a cousin from Egypt. She has a non-Arab suitor of her own. Omar, an employee of Mustafa, is a struggling actor who doesn't want to play only terrorists. Mustafa hopes to open a real restaurant and has a potential partner in Sam, a Jew, whose family objects. What is the price of the American dream?

En 2002, les relations internationales entre les Etats-Unis et l'Irak sont tendues. Le Président Bush pose un ultimatum à Saddam Hussein. Sur place, la réalité est tout autre. Delphine Le Guen se bat pour que la population d'un quartier de Bagdad bénéficie de l'eau potable... En France, l'analyste Hugo Bessières enquête sur la réalité d'une menace irakienne. Pendant ce temps, des islamistes radicaux recrutent de jeunes français dans les cités pour se joindre à leur mouvement...