Op 11 juni 1986, een dag nadat Marokko voetbalgeschiedenis schreef op het wereldkampioenschap door een verrassende overwinning op Portugal, krijgt overheidsfunctionaris Daoud het bevel een brug buiten Casablanca, die tussen twee vijandige gemeenschappen over een lege snelweg ligt, te beveiligen.
On 11 June 1986, one day after Morocco wrote football world cup history by scoring a surprising victory over Portugal, government official Daoud is ordered to secure a bridge outside Casablanca that sits between two hostile communities over an empty highway. Here, he is to await the expected but by no means certain visit of King Hassan II. Encounters with government supporters and the families of political prisoners; the mysterious appearance of a foreign woman and a Berber, as well as the story of a football crazy boy all prove to be a bit much for Daoud. Ever since the bloody ‘bread riots’ five years earlier, he has felt paralysed. But the euphoria and the hope he encounters here help to lift his mood. The Moroccan team’s success unleashes a new self-confidence and lust for life that transcends the surreal shadow of the monarchy.
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