Salut cousin

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerians eyeopening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer Unfortunately he has lost the Parisian address Fortunately his cousin Mok emigrated there several years before with his middleclass family before and is able to act as a guide Mok an aspiring rap singer comes from a middleclass family but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district known as Moskova Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors Mok and Alilo have many interesting some tragedytinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase