Approaching his forties and after a divorce, Nadir decides to get closer to his family to find a bit of peace. Many things have changed in his childhood neighbourhood, the world has become poorer, some of the inhabitants have become radicalized. Seeing his family left to its own devices and his father about to die, Nadir loses his footing and finds himself swallowed into a parallel world.

With Nasser Djemai’s writing, the vertigo takes the shape of a dreamy drive, pulling us into the reality that constitutes the daily routine of foreign families who became French for forgotten reasons.

Author and director Nasser Djemai composes with Vertigo (Vertiges in french) and Heirs (Héritiers in french), a trilogy of which the first part, Invisibles, will be performed at MC93 Bobigny from 8 to 18 January 2020.

If a name were to be given to this trilogy, it could be the one of decay. Gradual decay by disappointments and humiliations, which are passed on, in small doses, through generations by those who have lived through uprooting and exile in the invisible folds of silences, small nothings and murmurs scarcely audible.