1986, December 5th. As student protests rock the city of Paris and leave the police on high alert, a 22 year-old student Malik Oussekine, on his way home from a jazz concert, is chased down by police, beaten, and dies in a stairwell in the 6th arrondissement. His death shocked the nation and Malik's name became a rallying cry for resistance to police brutality. For the first time in a TV drama, Oussekine will explore Malik's death and his grieving family's fight for justice, as well as the difficult integration of an Algerian family in France in the 80s.