Mohamed Ayad

Adil and Rachid have known each other since childhood. Adil never wanted to stay and live in Morocco and always dreamed of settling on the other side of the Mediterranean. He thus ends up in Bologna, Italy, where his brother has lived for a long time. There, Adil leads two parallel lives: on one hand, he takes care of his disabled older brother; on the other, he works for a trafficker.

Fatem, who is six-months pregnant, leaves her village to fill a frame with empty glasses for the elder of her village, who is the only person who can decipher the letters sent by members of the villagers' families who have gone to work in the cities.

In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.