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A young Armenian man plants a bomb in Paris and flees to Beirut, where he confronts his comrades and seeks redemption by meeting his victim.
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n the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits that her son planted the bomb. Aram clashes with his comrades in Beirut and decides to meet his victim to make him his spokesman.
"The movie is based on the autobiography La Bamba by Spanish journalist José Antonio Gurriarán, who was wounded after a terrorist attack from the Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. Thus, the film evokes important themes from European political history, such as the Armenian Holocaust at the beginning of the 20th century and the struggle of this people. A narrative to show us all sides of a sad conflict."