Synopsis: In January 1974, Mostafa Derkaoui returned to Casablanca from his studies at the film college in Łódź, Poland. Together with his brother Abdelkrim, he shot his first film in the city’s bars and streets, in the harbour and the poorer districts. The independently produced film was borne by a collective energy unique in the cultural history of the country, even if Moroccan cinema was only starting to develop at the time. Banned by the censors at the time of its release, this work of collectivity involved painters, actors, musicians and the filmmakers in a radical gesture of art against authoritarianism.
