Ahmed El Idrissi Amrani

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.

The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

Aziz is chased by three brothers who want to avenge their sister, He meets Daoui a retiree in search of recognition. The film tells the story of this tormented journey.

When Mostafa, an experienced diver, mysteriously disappears, his wife Hniya has no choice but to confront her brother-in-law over the sharing of the canoes, without which she will not be able to provide for her children. Although Maati refuses to negotiate in the absence of his brother, tongues will end up being loosened in this Moroccan village...