“[A] haunting, peculiar and often expressly queer story of social isolation and outsider survival.” Guy Lodge, Variety

A rootless mother and teenage son struggle to get by in an inhospitable society, drifting from one Moroccan town to another, bound by a shameful secret and forced by circumstance into selling themselves.

“The story fills with careens of fate and shifting personal dynamics. The title is borrowed from a 1950 Joan Crawford movie, but the film has the punch of an earlier Crawford landmark, Mildred Pierce.” Danny Leigh, Financial Times