When director Asmae El Moudir finds an old picture postcard of a mountain village among her mother's belongings, it brings a remarkable story to life. The picture is of Zawia, the village in Morocco that her mother left as a child and never returned to. El Moudir decides to go to this remote place.

In Zawia, where time seems to have stood still, she embarks on a quest into her mother's past, and thereby her own. She connects on a personal level with women and girls in the village; one of the young girls is Oum Elaid. The better El Moudir gets to know her and her family, the more she realizes how different her life would have been if her mother had stayed in the village.

What begins as an intimate, personal journey in search of her family's roots, evolves into a universal story about emancipation, migration, and the human longing to belong to a community.

Director
Asmae El Moudir
Production
Mohamed Elmongy / Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Executive producer
Asmae El Moudir for InsightFILMS
Cinematography
Amine Belhouchat, Merouane Tiriri, Asmae El Moudir
Editing
Maria Mocpat
Sound
Mohamed Mouilid
Sound Design
Regis Cornudet
Screenplay
Asmae El Moudir
Narration
Asmae El Moudir
Narrator
Asmae El Moudir
Involved TV Channel
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Screening copy
InsightFILMS