FR : Casablanca, 11 juin 1986, jour de coupe du monde. Daoud, est un flic obligé de passer une journée sur un pont dans une zone perdue pour protéger le passage hypothétique du cortège Royal. Prisonnier de ce pont, il va se transformer au contact des habitants des deux villages des deux côtés du pont ; il apprendra la maturité d’un enfant de cinq ans, le courage d’une mère faible et esseulée, la vie de deux Moqadems frères ennemis teigneux, l’humilité par un chef de police facétieux. EN : Casablanca, June 11, 1986, day of the world cup. After yet another blunder, an embittered cop, Daoud, is sent by his dissatisfied superiors to spend a day on a bridge between two warring neighborhoods to protect the hypothetical passage of the Royal procession. At the same time a hopeless Don Quixote and a lazy Don Juan, Daoud is a pathetic womanizer who is the despair of everyone, starting with his lucid and exhausted wife and his ill- tempered chief. Prisoner of the bridge, Daoud will be transformed upon contact with the inhabitants of both villages. He will learn maturity after spending time with a five year old child and a mother who upheld her dignity, despite a shaved skull by the secret police. He will take a life lesson from two Moqadems*, mean-spirited enemy brothers and a facetious head of police. This seemingly normal day made of absurd waiting, improbable encounters and brutal poetry takes place under the giant shadow of a messianic monarch whose passage disturbs the delicate balance of this motley population.
