Moroccan Chronicles

In Moroccan Chronicles set in the ancient city of Fez a working class mother abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe tells three tales to her justcircumcised tenyearold son In the first Smihi restages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcocks The Man Who Knew Too Much in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists In the second two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welless Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love And in the third set in Smihis home town of Tangier an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa