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Algeria, 1962. The country is declared independent. There is a mass exodus as people across the country flee the ensuing violence. On a plane heading for France, things get heated between passengers and crew.
July 1962. The French are ordered to leave Algeria: “It’s either a suitcase or a coffin”, they’re told. A flight is about to take off for Marseille. The passengers include an angry OAS colonel, a fugitive spy, an undercover policeman, a former brothel-owner in mourning, a mother and her children, including little Laurent, who is only 10 years old. As they fly over Oran, the authorities order the pilot to land. But the pilot is not sure he should obey. The city is on fire and he fears that he will be forced to offload some of the passengers… What would happen to them?
Interspersed with character flashbacks, No Return smoothly weaves the stories of individuals into the bigger picture of Algerian independence. An additional twenty-page notebook dedicated to Patrick Jusseaume’s originals is included, along with an afterword by Jean-Laurent Truc, retracing the genesis of the project.
