Storyline: After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks.

In the near future, the worst ghettos of Paris, France are literally walled off and among the worst is District B13. Controlled by the ruthless crime lord, Taha, a young righteous punk named Leito is determined to bring him down. When the boss retaliates by kidnapping his sister, Lola, a rescue attempt by Leito is destroyed by betrayal that gets him arrested and Lola kept in the clutches in Taha. Six months later, a crackerjack undercover cop named Damien is given a urgent mission: a neutron bomb has been stolen by Taha in District B13 which has an automatic timer function engaged and set to detonate in less than 24 hours. Now with time running out, Damien and Leito must work together to find and stop the bomb, but there is far more to this crisis than any of the field players realize.

Algeria,1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a codayears later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, theirmotherland. We follow Said, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzledsergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up forhis Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in lovewith a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, abudding intellectual with a keen sense of injustice. The men fight withcourage against a backdrop of small and large indignities: Frenchsoldiers get better food, time for leave, and promotions. Is the promiseof liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow