Mustapha Rachidi

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.

Sixteen-year-old Hamid sits alone on a small boat in the port of Kenitra, surrounded by ships, sirens and screaming seagulls. "Why does everything feel so fake? Am I cursed?" From this haunting opening, the film unfolds in flashbacks, revealing the weeks that brought him to this moment.

10-year-old Mica, lives with his mother and sick father in a slums near Meknes. He starts apprenticing for his father’s friend, a handyman in a tennis club in Casablanca. After going through humiliation and even being physically abused, Mica starts to understand his situation, and does everything in his power to change it.

A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic turn. The mother joins a mystic ceremony to face her grief and the lost bond with her daughter.