Earth and Blood

Earth and Blood is a 2020 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq and starring Sami Bouajila, Eriq Ebouaney and Samy Seghir. The film is about a violent showdown at an isolated sawmill that occurs when a young employee hides eight kilos of a gang's stolen cocaine at the mill. When the heavily armed gang members come to recover their drugs, the sawmill owner stages a last stand to protect his teenage daughter. It was released on April 18, 2020, by Netflix. Plot During a heist at a police station's evidence room, two out of four criminals end up dead. The remaining two escape with eight kilos of cocaine. Meanwhile, sawmill owner Saïd goes through a CT scan and finds out he has carcinoma and not long to live. He visits his sister-in-law and tells her about his plans to sell his sawmill that was owned previously by her father, and assures her she'll get her share. One of his employees, a young man named Yanis who is out on parole, meets up with his half-brother and one of the criminals who survived the heist. Deciding not to hand over the stolen drugs to the drug lord Adama, the half-brother tells Yanis to hide the drugs at the sawmill. Yanis switches cars with him and hides the drugs at the sawmill. Saïd tells his speech-and hearing-impaired teenage daughter Sarah about his plans to use the money from selling the sawmill for her postsecondary studies. He meets a buyer and shows him the sawmill. Meanwhile, an enraged Adama captures the two criminals who survived the heist and kills one of them on the spot by snapping his neck. Saïd starts to suspect Yanis is up to something and after interrogating him, he finds the drugs hidden in a truck at the sawmill. Locking Yanis inside the sawmill and telling Sarah to stay indoors, he takes a shotgun and drives away for help. He circles back when he learns that the gang is on its way.