Leila, a French-Iraqi artist, is trying to find her lost Arabic origins. Through music transmitted by her Iraqi father, she draws a parallel between her family’s history and the tragedies of Iraq.
After an accident that causes her to lose her memory and several years of exile, a young Franco-Iraqi woman reconnects with her family to understand who she is. Reunited at her family home in the south of France, Leila confronts her father Abdul with his own past, the Iraq war, and decides to learn Arabic to put into song the poems he wrote to her. The language and the music gradually open the way to long-suppressed memories and lead her to discover her origins and the Arab world. The odyssey of a woman who sings her history to reinvent herself, inhabited by an irrepressible desire to live.
With the support of: Die Beauftragte de Bundesregierung für Kultur und Me- dien-BKM, Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel de la Fédé- ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Arab Fund for Art and Culture - AFAC, Doha Film Institute, Filmkunstering, Goethe Institute of Cairo, French Institute of Tunis.
The film participated in Dubaï Film Connection, Sarajevo Cinelink Work in Progress, Medimed Barcelona.
With the support of: Die Beauftragte de Bundesregierung für Kultur und Me- dien-BKM, Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel de la Fédé- ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Arab Fund for Art and Culture - AFAC, Doha Film Institute, Filmkunstering, Goethe Institute of Cairo, French Institute of Tunis.
The film participated in Dubaï Film Connection, Sarajevo Cinelink Work in Progress, Medimed Barcelona.
