1990: in a suburban slum, an everyday argument between teenagers turns into catastrophe. Zakari, aged 13, accidentally kills François. He goes hiding. During the course of one unexpected night, tension is rising against the bacdrop of this suburban landscape. A drama unfolds, in which each character reveals his own truth: those running after Zakari and the others, looking for him in order to protect him. No matter what their racial differences may be, they are all the same. They´re actually no running after Zakari. They are desperately seeking something attractive and fascinating, like this terrifying game where stolen cars are taken high speed joyrides. A game where young and reckless drivers run lights and race busy intersections. In the fraction of a second, one can win or lose everything, including his own life. Brothers is conceived as a journey between fiction and reality. The drama intercuts with bits and pieces of daily suburban life, as recorded by the director with a video camera. These fragments of reality are there to give us the hidden face of the story and its characters...
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