Yassir Kazzouz

Sixteen-year-old Hamid sits alone on a small boat in the port of Kenitra, surrounded by ships, sirens and screaming seagulls. "Why does everything feel so fake? Am I cursed?" From this haunting opening, the film unfolds in flashbacks, revealing the weeks that brought him to this moment.

Seven years after the death of his mother, 13-year-old Karim leaves Paris for Morocco with his father Messaoud, who has remarried.