The story portrays young war-volunteers embarked in combat-aircraft training in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, China and USSR to fight during the Algerian independence war against Colonial France (1954-1962).
The film portrays the extraordinary lives of young Algerians, today in their 70ies, who volunteered for the Algerian war, and who were directed to take on secrets airborn missions under the direction of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front). In 1956, they were sent to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, USSR and China for trainings on combat aircrafts such as MIG-15, MIG-17, Texan-6 & 11, YAK-11, Vampire, and MAC-9. In times where basic rights were denied to native Algerians, the intelligentsia of the resistance was preparing secret missions to short-cut the war, to support the freedom fighters inside the country while internationalizing the Algerian-case at the United Nations. Leading these missions were Krim Belkacem, Col. Amar Ouamrane, and Col. Abdelhafid Boussouf. The film is the testimonies by Mr. M'hammed Bencherchali, Hocine Snoussi, Chaichi Baghdadi, part of the first Algerian pilots along with Dahou Ould Kablia who reports on the vision of now-deceased political leaders.
