There are two brothers, Michele and Lorenzo, the first one is a dog lover and is a Labrador dogs’ trainer, the second one loves jazz and is a musician. They also have a very different character, Michele is a curmudgeon and a ruder man, while Lorenzo is more communicative and positive. They live alone in their parents’ home in Rome, because their father, a businessman, has gone abroad. Suddenly they learn their degenerate father is in Morocco and he sold the house where they live. Angry, surprised and disappointed they decide to go on the road and go to Morocco looking for their lost father. The desert and the events they’re going to face will change and mature them. The film was born from a documentary, Appunti per un film in Marocco (“Notes for a film in Morocco”), and its ancestor may be considered Salvatores’ Marrakesh Express, to which it could be compared, despite the very different plot and the dramatic structure. Here we’re closer to drama even if it’s alternated with comedy and the only real similarity is simply about the place chosen for the trip. The film has been awarded in Rome and Brussels.
