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A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
Determined not to simply get married, start a family, and grow old like the rest of the girls in her town, an aspiring Cuban diva sets out to launch a career as a singer.
Western Sahara is a country full of stories. We chose to focus on the Sahrawi women living in Spain, where they have taken up careers in different areas: doctors, nurses, teachers, artists, lawyers, writers. We coexist with them. Some are Muslim, others have strayed away from their original culture, although they remain persistent on defending the most ancestral parts of their traditions. It is a gaze through the exiled Sahrawi woman’s eyes.
A young Sahrawi woman faces deportation to Western Sahara, struggling to readjust to her homeland and confront family tensions sparked by her earlier departure.
# Translation Amzar and Alina's first meeting is merely a result of misunderstanding. Alina, who doesn't want to be labelled a 'loser' for still being single at her thirties, quickly grabs Amzar's arm, who happens to be there, to introduce him as her fiancé to avoid becoming the target of ridicule from Zufa, her arch-enemy since their school days. Amzar's life becomes chaotic after this sudden engagement story breaks out. As if it was meant to be, after that incident they meet again at Alina's workplace and Amzar is introduced as her new boss. Amzar uses the opportunity to get revenge on Alina for hurting his feelings, resulting in Alina being fired under the pretext of reducing the company's financial burden. Alina's meeting with Zafril, Amzar's brother, takes the story of Amzar and Alina to another phase. From hatred to the opposite. Feelings of love begin to blossom but suddenly there is interference from Hairi, Alina's ex-boyfriend who once inflicted emotional wounds on her.
Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the everyday violence experienced by Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupation and voices the aspirations of a desert people for whom the era of colonialist never ended.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.