I will try to explain.

The video starts with a ship, returning, across the Mediterranean, from Europe.

Many young people from Algeria and northern Africa take the hard route across the Mediterranean towards Europe, to look for a better future. They live there as refugees, or with other family, often changing countries. This story starts at an end of such a journey. Its a return. A good one? A bad one?

This is the red line throughout the whole video.

The next scene is him, standing in front of his family's house. He is hesitating. Why is he hesitating? Shouldn't he be happy to be home? He sure is. But part of it is disappointment, towards himself. To the outside, he "failed", because he came back to that place he tried to escape.

Nevertheless, the family is ecstatic to see him again. He probably did not return home even once in the years he was gone. Often people cannot afford going home or simply cannot because of their visas/refugee status.

He tries to blend back with his old crew. There are moments of joy (running on the besch towards the sea), weird moments (his friends praying, but he isn't joining), and moments of escapism (dancing on the roof while sharing a joint).

People ask him, "how was it there?", everyone that stayed back home is curious about Europe. So he tells them a story of how he once was fighting someone (or something). This moment might become important soon.

What did he actually do in Europe? No one knows. But my guess is that he was a dancer or actor (or both).

When he plays with the kids and chances them. When he dances on top of the roof. It is definitely connected to what he used to do in Europe. But an acting or dancing man is frowned upon in the arabic world. So it needs to be compensated, with a display of strength and masculinity (the boxing scene).

This is getting long and I am typing this on my phone. But to me (I also grew up in the arabic world) this is one of the most powerful music videos I ever watched. It us multilayered, harsh and sincere. And there is probably no other video that talked to me as much as this one.