A boy from the old country, Alilo, arrives in Paris to pick up a suitcase of women's dresses that will be sold back in North Africa. Naive in the ways of the European capital, he is taken in by his worldly cousin Mok. Mok dreams of being a rap star and recites the fables of La Fontaine with a hip-hop beat. The two have a variety of misadventures involving racial attacks, nasty debt collectors and romance. The subject is serious, though the tone stays relatively light.
Local color is vivid, and the movie, while rather plot-shy, brims with life.