Off the coast of a world in reconstruction, a voice whose source is unknown overhangs the city and sounds like an injunction. In resistance to this authoritarian diction, a new voice emerges.
Cheikh Morad Djadja makes his way through this universe, he must go to the Taxiphone and leave his own encrypted message.
''Appel masqué'' is a song composed by Cheb Abdou in 1993, during the period of the black decade in Algeria.
Like many of his songs, Cheb Abdou wrote and performed them under constant threat. Through his music, he opened a field of identity expression and gender affirmation, the etymology of the word RAÏ takes all its meaning.
By returning to the traces of the birth of rai, Oran, I met Cheikh Morad Djadja a personality of this environment and successor of Cheb Abdou, it was a real immersion in the community of singers and musicians raï.
The film was built around the taxi-phone representing this non-place of anonymous telecommunication and the impossibility of maintaining a message, an opinion, an opinion within a contemporary society.
Echoing the lyrics of the song ''Appel masqué'' by Cheb Abdou, #31# (unknown call) is an approach somewhere between documentary, fiction and performance, where Cheikh Morad Djadja leads us on an existential quest, in a world in perpetual reconstruction, where this non-place allows him to leave a masked vocal message about his trans-identity.
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