France's melting pot is simmering to a boil. Filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz's gritty and passionate film charts 24 hours in the lives of three alienated outsiders -- an Arab, a Jew and a black -- from a sterile housing project on the outskirts of Paris. After racist police have beaten and arrested one of their friends, short tempered Vinz (Vincent Cassel) and his two pals (Said Taghmaoui and Hubert Kounde) consider revenge during an aimless and anger-filled day and night. "Raw, vital and captivating" -- Los Angeles Times.