Cinételéma

Maité goes to the city of Laayoune where Dahmane is waiting for het to produce a documentary program about the Moroccan Sahara. the reality she discovers there does not match at all what she could have figured out....

Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown café by the beach. Fouad disdains his fellow Moroccans, calling them lazy, preferring the company of Europeans -- particularly, as Driss later learns -- young European women. Always on the make, Driss offers Fouad a business proposition -- to revamp his establishment and turn it into a proper restaurant with Driss as his business partner. He is later shocked and hurt to learn that Fouad starts to remodel his business but without Driss. Sending out his friends as spies, Driss learns a number of unsettling things about his would-be associate.

In the Gnawa tradition, the authentic Maâlem is the one who crafts his own musical instrument. Here, the Gnawa Maâlem Essaddiq has damaged his sintir and must create a new one using the traditional process. For him, it's impossible to play an instrument made by someone else...