Un prophète

Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old of Maghrebi descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by César Luciani, who enforces a brutal rule. Malik gains the protection of the Corsicans despite his North African origin after being forced to kill a Maghrebi witness, Reyeb. As Malik becomes embroiled in the Corsican mafia's criminal business, he is haunted by visions of the murdered Reyeb and begins to forge his own path, using his secret knowledge of French and his growing power to rise through the prison hierarchy.