The main story has a tendency towards a sentimentality that I suspect the street has little room for in reality. It is this aspect that kept me interested and it is depressing and rather powerful. Here the story is set about the friends trying to bury Ali in a manner that is fitting the dreams he had when he was alive but the film uses this to also show us the world of poverty, fear and abuse that street kids suffer. I'm not sure why I happened to end up watching this film but I am glad that I did because the story is not one that you hear often enough that of the many kids who live on the streets of third world cities. His friends plan to bury him but it is not long before the stresses start to break them apart Kwita starts working with the sailor who had taken Ali in while Omar visits Ali's prostitute mother for the first of several times. When Dib and his gang turn up looking for a fight, Ali is truck with a rock and dies soon after. Having split from the gang of the much older Dib because of being raped, the four live at the port, where Ali dreams of becoming a sailor because of the stories his mother used to tell him years before. Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are runaways living rough on the streets of Morocco.
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