Spring, 1990. After years of searching in vain, a stranger presses a scrap of paper into Zina’s pocket. It’s from Aziz: the man who vanished the day after their wedding almost two decades
ago.
It propels Zina on a final quest for a secret, desert jail in southern Morocco, where her husband crouches in despair, dreaming of his former life.
Fadel pays powerful testament to a terrible period in Morocco’s history, known as ’the years of cinders and lead’, and masterfully evokes the suffering inflected on those who supported the
failed coup against King Hassan II in 1972.
