Tief ins Fleisch

Ismaïl, an eminent neurosurgeon in Rabat, leaves his beautiful, warm-hearted wife Médée, a sculptor and mother of their three children, after more than thirty years to join Meriem, who is waiting for him at the border control of an international airport. Brutally, without any explanation, in the hope of breaking the knot of desire, betrayal and violence that threatens to suffocate them all, as honourably as possible. As a prisoner of boundless desire for his young lover, also a neurosurgeon, he is now condemned to go through all the hellish circles of the past: the loss of a fulfilled family life, the traumas of his childhood, the disappearance of his father, an opposition figure, his brother's illness, the web of his mother's hope. He passes judgement on himself as a man capable of the greatest cowardice and even greater love. In breathtakingly beautiful language, Yasmin Chami enters the bodies of men and women and paints a dramatic picture of Morocco in the last 60 years, characterised by repression and violence. But with a tender view of her characters and the beauty of the landscapes. The fate of a country, carried by the women on their hands, while the men indulge in utopias, in the eternal race for power.