Boutayna El Yaacoubi

A play director prepares to train a troupe on Jean Genet’s The Maids, however, tensions escalate after he starts taking antidepressants and battling his own demons ahead of the play’s scheduled performance in front of a producer and a cultural manager from the French embassy.

Amina tries to provide for her family, just as an old acquaintance returns after serving a prison sentence to reopen old wounds.

The series revolves around Shama, a young orphan who finds herself responsible for her home and crops after her father leaves for the Hajj pilgrimage. Her life changes when she is unjustly accused of cheating in the market. She defends herself before the governor by telling an eloquent story that reveals The truth is, because of her intelligence, the tribal chief appoints her as a storyteller in his council, which arouses the jealousy of his assistant, Jaafar, who begins to plot to distort her image, so Shama engages in a struggle sometimes with intelligence and sometimes with the power of storytelling to confront the harshness of reality.