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A mix of racial and ethnic prejudices as well as old-fashioned blackmail pit two couples against each other in this crime story from director Gianni Lepre. Bashir (Amjad Munir works in a low-level job in the kitchen of a restaurant that is not doing very well. One day he sees the owner of the restaurant deliberately setting it ablaze to collect needed financing from the insurance company. Bashir passes this interesting piece of knowledge onto his girlfriend Anne (Froydis Armand), a woman deeply in need of money herself if she wants to hang onto her house. Her brain may be soaked in alcohol on a regular basis, but Anne quickly realizes that the restaurant owner could be a gold mine to Bashir and herself. So she taunts and nags until Bashir does the deed, he lets the owner know what he wants. In response, the owner's wife (Torill Oyen) goads her husband into getting back at the would-be blackmailers in an escalating conflict in which someone has to lose.