Danielle, a Jew who grew up as a Muslim in Morocco, struggles for the right to bring up her son, Nasser. Nine years after she was forced to leave him in order to resettle in Jerusalem, she returns to Morocco to fight for custody. She is apprehensive about the meeting with her son, now 14, whom she hardly knows and with her Muslim family with whom she has had very little contact.  She expects to face difficulties due to the Moroccan laws but to her surprise, she finds that the real difficulties come from the society in which she now lives. Whilst Nasser, who so movingly reconnects with his mother, develops hopes of finally reuniting with her, the Jewish bureaucracy takes its time and puts at risk the fragile confidence built between the mother and son. 

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