They come from Senegal, Ireland, Brazil, Morocco, China ... They have between 11 and 15 years old and just arrived in France. For a year, they will jointly attend the same class adaptive in one of the Parisian schools. 24 students of 24 different nationalities and two common goals: to master the French language and find themselves in the local reality.

French school becomes a real multicultural arena. Teens shown in the film undergo the same things every child in their age, and therefore the physical changes of the body, forming views, storms hormones, but many also sets them apart from the French peers. Each of them has won already a lot of life experience. In France they were with their families, for which they must often respond as people who speak only French. Although faced with various problems arising from integration processes, such as racism or xenophobia, they look to the future with hope and courage. They are true heroes.

 "School of Babel," directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski's collaborator, Julie Bertucelli is an extraordinary document, the registrant fascinating experiment, which are adaptive class. In this multicultural group of social unrest reflected: come to light mutual prejudices, fear of otherness and stereotypes. But thanks to this film, the viewer learns how to fight them, not how to strengthen them. It's one of the reasons why the film was nominated for Caesar, the French equivalent of the Oscar for best documentary.