Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers onboard. Nobody knows just what the terrorists' intentions are they are determined and armed. They demand the liberation of their"brothers in arms" and want the aircraft to takeoff at the same time. After lengthy and intense discussions between the Algerian and French authorities, the plane is allowed to remain. There are three main characters at the heart of the actions: some part of the GIGN,'' Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat eager to do anything required to reach personal profit from the events, also Yahia Abdallah, also a determined jihadist who grew up in the slums of Algiers and continues to be exploited by an vague GIA envoy, Ali Touchent.