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...
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.
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.