Correspondent in Istanbul
Twenty-something Ali makes a living selling contraband gasoline on the black market.
He has rage and dreams from elsewhere.
Over there, on the Mediterranean coast, the sea winks at him.
She inspires him and sucks him in when, consumed by the disillusions of an unfinished revolution, he thinks of this window on a possible tomorrow.
But the family destiny catches up with him and burns him.
When her father dies, she is responsible for her two younger sisters, left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be expelled.
Begins a descent into hell, between small arrangements with a crooked boss ready to exploit him and trouble with a police force more than ever corrupt.
In the background, like a picture frozen since 2011, stands the mirror portrait of an unfinished Tunisian revolution, under the frank and committed gaze of Lotfy Nathan.
Universal and metaphorical
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Harka 's story
is inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi, whose act of self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid was one of the catalysts for the Arab Spring…
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