Desert

Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms, Nour's tribe — the Blue Men — are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even further from home, on an epic journey northward in the hope of finding a land in which they can again be free. Decades later, an orphaned descendant of the Blue Men — a girl called Lalla — is living in a shantytown on the coast of Morocco. Lalla has inherited both the pride and the resilience of her tribe, and she will need them as she makes a bid to escape her forced marriage to a wealthy older man. She flees to Marseille, where she experiences both the hardships of immigrant life as a hotel maid and the material prosperity of those who succeed when she becomes a successful model. And yet Lalla does not betray the legacy of her ancestors.