In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. âLiving the colonial condition,â confided Tewfik Farès, âis something! Itâs not sociologically or historically speaking. Itâs life. And I think thatâs all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.