In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
Released
Italy
September 10, 2004
(Venice Film Festival)
France
October 12, 2004
(Paris Quinzaine du Cinéma Francophone)
Sweden
January 30, 2005
(Göteborg Film Festival.)
Australia
February 19, 2005
(Adelaide Film Festival)
Belgium
March 2, 2005
Argentina
March 15, 2005
(Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Denmark
August 19, 2005
(Copenhagen International Film Festival)
Switzerland
October 20, 2005
(German speaking region)
Greece
May 14, 2006
(Ecocinema Festival)
Germany
June 8, 2006
The Netherlands
October 5, 2006
Poland
December 8, 2006
Great Britain
February 28, 2008
(Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran)