Mohamed Amin Benamraoui

In 1975, 10-year-old Amar lives in a village in northern Morocco with his violent uncle, waiting for the unlikely return of his mother, who has left for Belgium. He finds a friend in Carmen, his neighbor, who is a Spanish exile and who works as an usher at the village cinema. Carmen helps him discover a world previously unknown to him.

Farid, a disillusioned young musician turned migrant smuggler from northern Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, is confronted with his own humanity when the fate of pregnant sub-Saharan Angelique falls into his hands.