Itto Titrit

Fançais

Le peuple marocain se mobilise pour exiger le retour de son roi Mohamed V exile par les forces coloniales. Le mot liberté est sur toutes les lèvres et fait rêver plus d'un chacun. Une petite bourgade du Moyen Atlas s'agite et se met a rêver à son tour...

English

Morocco 1955-57 The whole country is going through turmoil. The word freedom is on all lips. The Moroccan people, in accordance with their nationalist Sultan Mohamed V, claim the right to decide their future by putting an end to the French Protectorate. A small hamlet in the Middle Atlas Mountains is heart and mind with the liberation movements shaking the people of the Third World. The dream of liberation of the ten-year-old girl Itto, nicknamed Morning Star for her radiant beauty, is to sit side by side in the Koranic School with her childhood friend Bassou and acquire knowledge which will free her from the blocking centuries old social taboos. She uses patience and charm to reach her goal.