The Secret of the Grain

“It takes will, courage and determination to realise a dream. But most of all it takes family”

Slimane Beji (Habib Boufares) is an aging Franco-Arabic shipyard worker in southern France who wants to open a restaurant, a place he can leave to his large and scattered family. Rym (Hafsia Herzi), his partner's daughter, throws herself into the plan beside him, while the French bureaucracy meets it with doubt. Abdellatif Kechiche keeps the camera on the family's crowded table, where the couscous sits steaming in the middle.