Naïm, a renowned anthropologist, wants to make a film on beautiful Mririda, a Berber poet and courtesan who mesmerizes him. At the brothel where she used to go, Naïm is struck by the beauty, the sensuous tattoos of young prostitute Adjou. He immediately feels bound in his flesh and soul to Adjou, a kind of mirror image to Mririda. Adjou’s brutal murder triggers a police investigation. In his desperate search for truth, Naïm sways between a world of imagination and reality. Lazcen Zinoun is the conductor of a film composed like a five-movement opus framed by tribal rituals and practices like the mysterious, erotic tattooing of women. He sings the hymn of freedom for women to control their own bodies in a society still paralyzed by ancient codes. He films Fatym Layachi’s goddess-like body with the same poetry and lyricism as he does the sexual passion that enflames the lovers.

In 1999, Richard Condo, a man with an already extensive criminal record, was arrested in Ottawa and charged with a slew of criminal charges which event ally resulted in a Dangerous Offender Application under the Criminal Code of Canada, Section 753. After having been found NOT to be a Dangerous Offender, Richard Condo was given an 8-year prison sentence to be followed by a 10-year supervision order as a long term offender, Section 753.2. At his release from prison in July of 2006, Richard Condo faced extensive media coverage and with the many adversities, stigmas and stereotypes associated with his past, he had to deal with a system that labeled him a certain failure. Inspired by true events, it is the story of a man given a second chance at life and how he responded to the adversities thrown at him to answer the ultimate question: Is there redemption for such a man?