Mahdi and Hocine like their city and are proud of it. However, that doesn't stop either of them from dissecting it. Sometimes taking turns and sometimes together, they begin their analysis and a flood of words follows. Algiers is a beautiful but polluted city. In the last few years, due to politics, decentralization and instability, more and more people are flocking to Algiers.
Poverty is more and more evident.
Children abandon school to take on their responsibilities as heads of families by selling recovered cigarettes or washing the windshields of cars caught in traffic jams. Crazy people wander the streets, and sometimes, when they are overheard, one wonders if they really are crazy. More and more young girls and boys have turned to prostitution just so that they can get by. Movie theaters are closed or little visited and most of the films shown there are pirated or on video. It is also the exclusive domain of men.