

José Fernandez is an air and border police officer. He spends his life managing the transfers of undocumented people to their countries of origin with his colleague Guy Berthier, an inveterate seducer. The few days when he is not between two planes, he argues with his wife Maria, jealous, who wants to leave him and keep him away from his son-in-law, Antoine, who adores him. One day, his superior offered him one last transfer before transferring him to the banditry repression brigade, a transfer that José has been waiting impatiently for years: he must renew Massoud Karzaoui, an Afghan pretending to be the victim of identity theft. Indeed, the latter claims to be actually Algerian and wants to return to his country to find his wife (whom he first passes for his mother, then his sister). He shouts in all tones to have stolen the wallet of an Afghan homeless, the real Karzaoui, without knowing that he was wanted for attacking an old lady with a knife, but José and Guy, accustomed to hearing those returned to the border try to lie to them so as not to be expelled, insist on not believing it. While a storm rages, the plane is forced to land in Malta. José, Guy, and Karzaoui are forced to wait for a new plane to land to finally take them to their destination.