Fadwa Boujouane

Itar el-Layl

Tala Hadid

Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze

The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism.