[4] Georges Lajoie is a white family man who owns a small Paris café where his clientele routinely complain about immigrants in the country.

Georges, his wife Ginette, and college-age son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, an annual seaside retreat in the south of France.

When the body is discovered, the vacationers are quick to blame the Algerians and resolve to seek vengeance, with Georges stoking the mob's bloodlust.

Police Inspector Boulard is assigned to investigate the crime, but his work is continually impeded by self-serving politicians, hesitant witnesses and his own superiors, who pressure him to blame innocent immigrant workers instead of the guilty "honest French citizens."

Though the film was a commercial success in France, it received criticisms for "failing to fully explore the issues of French anti-Arab racism that lie at the heart of the narrative".