Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
Several characters are caught and beaten up by extremist thugs. A woman is held at gunpoint in her apartment by the thugs and thinks she is about to be shot.
A sheep is slaughtered by having its throat cut. The whole process is shown with graphic detail, although the scene does not last that long. The scene is unsimulated.