Dounia watched the imam leading the congregation to pray outside the mosque, but she did not go in.
How Dounia came to France, did not explain. It should be to follow her mother, as a beneficiary of the refugee policy, from a poor hometown to France to seek refuge with her aunt. She has been here for a few years, but she didn't explain it. But if you guess from her fluent French, it shouldn't be short.
Dounia's best friend is the daughter of a local imam, a fat black girl named Maimouna. The two girls will make a small video together, claiming that one day they will become the richest person. In the camera, they laughed wantonly, swaying their best youth.
Youth is beautiful, but reality is not. While Dounia longed to be able to enter the monastery to pray, he envied Rebecca, the drug dealer next to the mosque. As stated in the video between her and Maimouna, she needs money and she aspires to be rich.
The two of them went to Wal-Mart to steal things, wearing generous coats worn by Islamic women, which could hide a lot of goods. They know that the security guards have nothing to do with them because they have the protection of their religious beliefs. Dounia may realize that she is using her faith, so she can no longer walk into the mosque to pray with everyone.
If they stole something, they would go out through the back door of the store. There was a theater behind them, and students could be seen practicing dance all day long. The two of them took some snacks and climbed onto the prop rack above the stage, watching the students dance while commenting on them.
Of course, the stolen goods are not mainly used for the two of them to eat, but more for selling. Dounia will bring some and sell them at the door of her vocational training school for some money.
This school is specially set up for women with relatively low academic qualifications. It seems that the girls who come to participate are from poor families. The content of the class is mainly to teach them some methods of how to apply for positions such as receptionists, including the industry rules of how to provide services with a smile when customers make things difficult.
In class practice, the female teacher asked Dounia to keep smiling, and believed that she was not seriously learning how to be a receptionist. This angered Dounia. In her perception, what she needed to find was a job that could bring her a fundamental change, not a job as a receptionist. She mocked the teacher for not smiling while doing the simulation exercises, and then yelled at the teacher. She was just a poor ghost. Dounia slammed the door and left, threatening to never return to this place again. The teacher who was humiliated accepted Dounia's disapproval and attack on her own identity and contempt for the rules.
In a cheap tavern, Dounia serves as a waiter and a bartender. Mother is looking for pleasure in the bar. Maybe her mother is also a waiter in this tavern, but she is busy flirting with the guests and getting herself drunk. Dounia warned her mother that the boss was coming, and if she continued to drink like this, she would be fired. From the mother's nonchalant attitude, it seems that the position of the mother and daughter exchanged. Although Dounia is only a teenage girl, she is the one who plays the "mother" in the relationship.
Dounia wants to go to her friend Maimouna's house to write a thesis, and her mother mocks her and finds it ridiculous that she wants to learn. Finally understand why Dounia wants money, a lot of money. She wants to change her destiny. What she can see is that making more money is the only way out. As for the mother, it is enough to spend the days in bed with different kinds of men and use the opportunity of working in a bar to get drunk. A mother who has no motivation to change does not support her daughter's change from the bottom of her heart.
When Dounia put on her clothes and was about to leave, the boss came, and she immediately turned back. Seeing her mother being beaten and scolded by the boss, Dounia stood firmly on her mother's side and quarreled with the boss. Both of them lost their jobs. We cannot choose our own parents. When we find that our parents are not as good as we want, or even very bad, the most helpless thing is that at the same time we find that we cannot leave them. Dounia, like many children, tried to save her mother again and again, but was disappointed again and again.
Seeing drug dealer leader Rebecca instilling how to open a Thai bar and how to make money, Dounia's eyes were full of envy. Living in a slum, the mother and daughter and aunt were squeezed into a ruined room. To put the bath water, you also need to use a petrol can with a pipe to pick it up. Dounia who accidentally made herself wet, Rebecca is the one she can see, the one that is most likely to bring her change.
So she took the risk. Through observation, she knew that Samir, who helped Rebecca bulk cargo, usually hid the drugs in the unmanned corridor behind the mosque. So this time after Samir put the goods in, she sneaked in and tried to take them out. Dounia crept across the mosque and ran into the imam. She put away the unruly expression on her face and responded to the imam's inquiry humbly. Imam is the father of a good friend Maimouna. In Dounia's heart, his friend's parents are different from his own family. Maybe she can't tell where it is different, but she knows that Maimouna's parents will not go to bed very late, let alone cry like her mother who was dumped by a man and asked her to serve tea and pour water.
Dounia wants a mother, a powerful person, someone who can take care of her, someone who can tell her how to walk into the rules of society and survive well. So she went to Rebecca, with the stolen drugs, falsely claiming that Samir had taken it away. And I can do more bulk for her and will not make this kind of mistake. Rebecca knew that she was lying, but Dounia's undaunted aggressiveness could be used for her, so she left Dounia and her friends to work for herself.
Dounia and Maimouna went to the top of the theater to watch the show, while learning to smoke weed, the two of them choked. At this time, they suddenly discovered that the security guard in the Wal-Mart supermarket appeared in the theater. It turned out that he was also one of the students. The security guard was called Djigui. When the dance teacher accused him of being late, Djigui, like Dounia, quarreled with the teacher. But the difference is that when Dounia attacked the female teacher, mocking herself as a poor person who could not even afford to go to Wal-Mart, the female teacher could only look at her with tears in her eyes, and was unable to fight back. But the dance teacher was different. He hit Djigui back forcefully, telling Djigui that these were just excuses for his fears. I am afraid that I will not be able to dance well, I am afraid that I will be changed, and finally I will be busy with work and be late to liberate myself.
What surprised Dounia even more was that Djigui, who was scolded by the dance teacher, did not run away like himself. Djigui stayed and used a dance to prove that he was worth staying on this stage. It turned out that a person can face his own fears for his own dreams, Dounia sees different possibilities.
Maybe because of the effects of marijuana, Maimouna suggested spitting down, Dounia thought she was crazy at first. But in the end, he couldn't stand the bewitching, and compared to spitting with her, he was finally discovered by Djigui. In the chase, the two people fell in love for the first time.
In the middle of the night, the two girls went to steal gasoline at Rebecca's request. It seemed that Dounia always had a fearless energy and was always taking risks. Go to the supermarket to steal things, to see Rebecca asking for work, and to walk on the most dangerous suspension beam. The reason for not seeing the danger is because she doesn't allow herself to be afraid. But the suppressed fear disturbed her in her dreams. She told Maimouna that she always had the same dream. It kept falling down, seemingly endless, trying to wake up but failed. In her dream, Dounia was so helpless, Maimouna hugged her and said that she would catch her.
She was reused by Rebecca, and Rebecca gave her a brand new Apple phone as a reward, giving Dounia the first taste of the joy of working hard for herself. Moreover, Rebecca gave her responsibility for the original Samir site and asked her to trade in drugs. The success made the two girls jump for joy, and suddenly becoming rich is not so far away. They dream of vacationing in Bali, driving a sports car, drinking champagne, and winking at the handsome guy on the beach.
At the same time, Dounia would quietly go to the top floor of the theater to watch Djigui rehearse, and there seemed to be another kind of magic that was attracting her. This is a different kind of life, which is different from what his mother brought to her, and Rebecca brought her to her. Just for the sake of dreams, to compete for the possibility of performing on stage, and to get the only opportunity to go to Paris to learn dance, one can constantly surpass oneself and continue to work hard. Dounia had always believed that only money could make her do that, and Djigui loosened her belief.
Dounia, who was in the first transaction, was beaten. The drug addict thought she was just a poor girl from a slum and tried to steal her goods. But when she reported Rebecca's name, the other party ran away in shock. Rebecca's power fascinated her. Rebecca is like an enlightenment teacher, telling her that she should put her hair down so that she can see her beauty; she told her that the reason why the poor are poor is because they dare not have a desire for money. Rebecca is completely satisfied with Dounia's vision for the future. These things that originally only appeared in her imagination, now someone tells her that they can all be realized . However, the other party did not tell her what price it would cost to achieve it.
Djigui knew that she would come and watch her dance secretly, and he inspired Dounia to learn dance too. Dounia quietly hid the money made from drug trafficking above the theater, as if deep in her heart, this is a safe place. I don't know if it is because there are men I like practicing dancing here, or because this theater has some kind of Holy Spirit power.
Rebecca found her a new job and used her beauty to attract a man named Rada, because Rebecca inquired about the habit of hiding 100,000 euros in cash at home. As long as Dounia can get into the other party's home, she can steal the money. Dounia was unwilling to participate in this project. As Djigui's influence in her mind grew, Rebecca's influence gradually weakened.
Dounia and Maimouna dressed themselves according to Rebecca's plan and went to the nightclub to attract Rada's attention. Dounia, dancing in the middle of the dance floor, was radiant, and was no longer the wild girl with pigtails in the slums all day long. Rada was fascinated by her, but Dounia walked away. No one knows if she is playing a game of grappling, or if she doesn't really want to implement the plan.
Back home, I ran into Samir deliberately seduce her mother and had a relationship with her mother in order to retaliate against her for taking away her job. Dounia was mad, but her mother continued to blame her blindly for always leaving herself at home. Dounia burned Samir's car and prevented the firefighters from coming to fight the fire.
The most difficult thing is to face the incompetence of the parents, neither to leave them behind, nor to be dragged into the quagmire by them. Dounia is just destroying herself, making no secret of her burning car, and even happily filming videos in front of the police. Apart from attacking herself, she didn't know how to dispel her complicated and difficult feelings for her mother.
Dounia and Maimouna were taken away by the police. Maimouna's mother accused Dounia of ruining her daughter, and also accused Dounia's mother of being a bitch. And Maimouna's father, the imam of the mosque, looked at Dounia with disappointed eyes. Compared to scolding, Dounia couldn't stand the look in Imam's eyes the most. Rebecca also scolded Dounia and took the key to the warehouse she managed.
Everyone left her. She went to find Djigui to have a big fight, but Djigui told her that he was about to face the final selection. While waiting in the hallway, Dounia unconsciously danced in front of the mirror. While watching Djigui's rehearsal quietly, she was already familiar with his dance.
Djigui was chosen. He gave Dounia tickets to perform and planned to take her to Paris. This is not only a beautiful life at hand, but also a possibility, a possibility she has never seen before. Paying hard for his dream, and then reaping the fruits, Djigui has a sense of practical satisfaction on his face. She had never seen such an expression on anyone else's face.
Rebecca came to Dounia again, because Rada looked for her everywhere, wondering who the goddess was on the stage that night. Rebecca used one hundred thousand yuan to lure Dounia, and Dounia went. Dounia, who was inexperienced, rummaged around during the interval when Rada was going to take a bath. When the other party found out, she was beaten severely and almost raped her. When she finally knocked the opponent out and took 100,000 euros in cash, and was about to go to the train station to find Djigui, she found out that her good friend Maimouna had been kidnapped by Rebecca.
Tragedies are always caught off guard, but they can't escape the clutches of fate. Maimouna was unable to escape the room full of flames, and the firefighters who came after hearing the news had been attacked by Dounia last time, so they had to wait for the police to come in before they would come in to fight the fire. Maimouna was burned alive in front of Dounia, but she was helpless. In fact, she has never been able to do anything about it. The future presented by Djigui is very beautiful, but it is very strange. And sinking down with her mother and Rebecca made her feel familiar.
On the surface, it seems that the film cruelly took away Dounia's chance to change her own destiny, but in fact there is no chance at all. When she was attracted by Rebecca and took the initiative to ask Ying to sell drugs for her, when she was driven, the end was already doomed. Djigui's appearance is just a glimmer, not enough to make her break free of so many shackles. And the death of her good friend Maimouna was the price she paid for wanting to break free of these shackles.
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