El Makroum (2005)

• 73%
• 2005

Omar makes a living with his wife and their children thanks to the modest sums he earns by selling used clothes. His life changes when he comes across a bundle of currency buried in the merchandise. From this moment, Omar will plunge into a phase of anguish and will try to bury this secret. Omar finally decides to exchange these currencies into dirhams. This is how he meets a young employee named Fatine in the bank. He falls in love with it. He will thus lead a double life. In front of his wife, he is an honest and modest man, but when he is with his mistress Fatine, he is spendthrift and reveler. But, Omar does not know that Fatine is only taking advantage of his naivety to extract even more money from him. How long can Omar survive this situation? Will he continue to lead a life on the verge of schizophrenia? Will the mask fall one day to finally unlock the secret of his sudden enrichment?