In the National Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, thousands of files await inventory, including those of political violence victims from the "years of lead." Among them is a file on Fatna El Bouih, forcibly disappeared and tortured as a 21-year-old student in the 1970s. After years of reconstruction and silence, 67-year-old Fatna continues her fight, pursuing "her dream of change" differently. Despite a still challenging context, she is involved in prisons, advocates for gender equality, and shares her story with Syrian women survivors of Saydnaya prison.

Following her through Casablanca's bustling streets, we witness her relentless activism, including one of her most challenging projects: organising a film festival at the Oukacha prison, the country's largest juvenile detention centre. Images of modern Casablanca blend with footage from the 1970s, merging past and present. Fatna's inner voice narrates her life, from her birth during Morocco's independence to her involvement with the revolutionary left in the 1970s. ‘Fatna, a Woman Named Rachid’ is a sensitive and intimate journey that mixes past and present, portraying a pioneer of women's active engagement and her intimate struggle to exist.