Larbi Yacoubi

Fantômes de Tanger

The protagonist, or "the visitor" is a French writer who goes to Tanger for a research on all the complexity the place has shown, since WWI, in terms of nationality, colonialism, ethny and ethics -- Tanger itself appears as a great challenge to frontiers in general.

The Beach of Lost Children

Since Mina is sufficiently mentally impaired that her judgement is not all that it might be, in this Moroccan drama her actions are not questioned. She doesn't know what's happening when a taxi driver has sex with her, and she's equally clueless about how she accidentally killed him. However, she does recognize that having a dead body around is a liability, and she buries the taxi driver under a pile of sea salt. When it turns out that she's pregnant, her aged fisherman father and loving stepmother put her in hiding and the stepmother pretends to be the pregnant one, so that when the child is born she can claim it as her own.

Your Sweet Body to Kill

Tells the story of a husband who wants to kill his unfaithful wife. He has many murderous fantasies in which he murders her. After the disposal of her beautiful dead body our hero loses an incriminating suitcase. It's time to get the crime evidence back.