"Short film"
In 1975, in a village in southern Morocco, a young illiterate woman’s attempt to write to her absent husband becomes an intimate act of resistance against silence, distance, and the limits imposed on her world.
Social & External
The people behind it
Oumaima Oughaou
Meriem
Youssef Ourras
Lahcen
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