Rouiiss is a youngster among many homelesses falls in love with Malak a girl from a wealthy family. Rouiiss is convinced that it is insane and downright impossible. But destiny makes Rouiiss realize his best dream .....

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.