On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.
Ahmed drives through the derelict nightscape of Cairo, anxious to secure money to pay for an abortion for a young woman - a procedure that must take place immediately. He comes across an intriguing group of young people, led by a woman who aims to solve the enigma surrounding a giraffe rumoured to be hidden at the Cairo zoo. As an absurd chain of events unfolds, Ahmed is distracted from his mission
The film is based on the true story of a meeting between the two filmmakers and an unknown European. This meeting took place one evening in 2017, in a bar in Beirut. The man was on his way to join the Kurdish militia at war with the Islamic State on Syrian territory.
