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In the vast expanse of the desert, a determined young geologist finds herself stranded. She is the lone survivor of a group of geologists on a survey mission who drowned due to sudden rain caused by climate change. Faced with the harsh reality of her circumstances, she sets forth on a profound and introspective odyssey, A mysterious traveller with a turbulent past joins her and presents a series of puzzling challenges to inspire and motivate her. Through their shared journey, she grapples with conflicting emotions, oscillating between the unwavering hope of survival and an inner resistance to the inescapable forces of fate.
A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
