Rose Of The Desert

An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers A society still functioning on centuriesold rituals The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day Moussa disabled from birth lives there with his sister Zineb They try together to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood of times when parents took all the responsibilities Moussa is perfectly independent although he has no arms he nevertheless loves being cared for by his sister Zineb for her part does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute Life passes punctuated by the same gestures Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster draws or dreams of Mériem the woman he loves A rose secretly grows in the sand which Moussa waters every day