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Episode 1

Algeria 1957. In the heart of the war that pits the French troops and the rebels fighting for the independence of their country against each other, an event occurs which is worrying in the extreme for French headquarters: since a fortnight, a platoon of twenty-two men has disappeared with their weapons and luggage. This platoon, consisting or Harkis, Algerians enrolled in the French army, was under the command of lieutenant Messonnier. Captain Valéra, charged with finding Messonnier and his section, leads the inquiry into the Kabyle mountains, to the same spot where the section disappeared. Have Messsonnier and his men defected to the enemy? Was the platoon wiped out by the armed groups of the F.L.N., the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale? Was Messonnier betrayed by his second in command, Mohan Djeddar, who was an F.L.N. militant before he joined the French army? A strange person, this Messonnier. Nicknamed Azrayen’, the Angel of Death – according to the local beliefs of the Kabyle people, Messonnier was the lover of Takhlit Allilat, a young Berber teacher. This means that the testimony of Takhlit is of vital importance to captain Valéra if he wants to stand a chance to find Messonnier again. And in spite of herself, Takhlit participates in the searches.

Episode 2

Continuation and ending to tear your heart out.
Algeria 1957. Lieutenant Messonnier and his platoon have disappeared in the Kabyle mountains. This second episode of Azrayen’ leads captain Valéra on the quest, up to the ultimate conclusion of his inquiry. A strange and terrifying end and surprising also, when everything that has come to light is wiped out by a single stroke of fate. It is as if the disappearance of Messonnier and his men was to symbolise the frightful uselessness of war in general and the war in Algeria in particular.