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- The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul, a simple farmer, who with God's help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. Not trustful enough of divine wisdom, he acts of his own accord and thus sins against the Lord. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites. When David - as courageous as he is intelligent - emerges victorious from his encounter with Goliath, the Philistines' most powerful warrior, he becomes a hero. His fame arouses the jealousy of King Saul, who senses that David is going to dispute his right to be king - and tries to kill him. David flees from Saul, and finds many supporters and loyal companions who believe that he is destined to be king. In exile, David waits for his time to come, since he does not want to take the place of Saul by violence. He is young and in the prime of his strength, while King Saul is a broken man. When Saul falls upon his sword after losing a battle, David's hour is at hand. The new King David conquers Jerusalem. The magnificent city is to become the royal residence for the glorious hero, who now plans to leave the business of war to others in future and to become a King of Peace. However, this temperamental man, with so many years of battle behind him and still in the bloom of youth, is not predestined for a quiet, orderly life at all. Very soon he plunges into an illicit love affair with Bathsheba, a married woman - an affair that threatens to become the king's undoing when it turns out that she is expecting his child. To conceal his adulterous fatherhood, the king sends Bathsheba's husband Uriah - one of his best and most loyal soldiers - to his death, and then marries her. The prophet and royal adviser Nathan announces to David that his act will result in divine punishment: the Lord will not countenance such an outrage. Violence and evil will continue in David's own family and bring disaster upon the heads of the numerous sons born to David from his wives and concubines. Then the child of David and Bathsheba dies. She gives him another son, Solomon, but very soon David suffers another sharp blow of fate: his grown-up son Absalom kills one of his brothers for the latter's rape of his sister. David is far too mild in response to this: not only does he fail to bring the incestuous seducer to justice, he also leaves the fratricide unpunished. The king does not realise that he is gradually losing control over his family, and that his hold on the people is also growing weaker. For David is obsessed with his plan of building the finest and largest temple in the world in Jerusalem. He demands immense sums from the populace for this project, even though God has commanded him to leave the completion of the building to his successors. David's ambitious son Absalom thus finds it very easy to drum up support for a conspiracy against his father. After a fierce battle, culminating in Absalom's death, David makes it back to Jerusalem.
- Thirty years after her father was killed and her house was burned down, Samra returns to her village seeking revenge from the tyrant who caused it all. But her mission will not be easy, and she will have to go through a set of challenges in order to achieve her goal.
- Raniya, a young woman who lives in the whirlwind of her repetitive daily life. With a disorderly memory and a suffocating present, she discovers that there is something wrong with her life, something she does not understand. She decides to go in search of her true personality. Synopsis Raniya is a young woman whose memory is deficient and doesn't remember her past. She lives an endless daily routine, surrounded by people she thinks she knows; a nurse who is just bringing her medicine, and an insufferable monster-like guard. Raniya is married to Omar, a man often absent because of his work. This absence is the source of the disputes between him and Raniya because she suspects him of cheating on her, which is true, because Omar has a love affair with Hafida, a young singer in the city bar. Days are similar in Raniya's life. Waking up in the morning to take her medication, waiting for her husband to leave and going out to collect him in the bar. On her way, Raniya often stops at the roadblock of the gendarmerie to see Halim, a gendarme who has feelings for her. Raniya avoids these feelings, but Halim insists on seeing her telling her that he is waiting for her call and that he remains hopeful, except that Raniya reminds him of her situation and asks him to be patient. On her way, Raniya always stops by a gas station to see the only person she trusts and feels safe with. Charqi, a wise man who provides Raniya with a lot of good feelings and gives her hope. At the end of her journey, Raniya arrives at the city bar to look for her husband Omar. She harasses Hafida but the latter denies that she knows him. Raniya does not believe her and threatens her, When Rania arrives home and can't find Omar, she tries to call him , but no answer. She doesn't know what to do. Lâayachi asks her about Omar, but Raniya chases him. In the middle of the night Omar arrives, exhausted and only wants to sleep. Rania harasses him with and asks him to tell her the truth. Omar tells her that he doesn't know what she is talking about and that he has been at work all day. Raniya continues to mistreat him and pushes him aggressively, Omar ends up by slapping her. The two get into a fight, Raniya ends up throwing him down from the top of the stairs. Omar does not move anymore, he is dead. Fearfull, Raniya pulls Omar's body down to the basement and puts it in the fridge and goes upstairs to sleep in her room. In the morning, Raniya wakes up again. Same pace, same routine. The nurse brings her medication and prepares her breakfast as usual. Raniya takes the opportunity of the nurse's absence and goes down to the basement to see Omar's body. To her surprise, the refrigerator is empty. She goes back frightened in the living room and realizes that the photos of her and Omar are no longer at their place, she does not understand anything. She goes back to her room, no more photos of Omar, or even his clothes in the closet. She is losing her mind. The nurse came and asks her what's going on, Raniya asks her about Omar's belongings. The nurse, astonished, asks who's Omar? Raniya answers: my husband. The nurse tells her that she has never been married. Panicked, Raniya doesn't know what to think. She runs away and leaves her house trying to gather her thoughts. She goes straight to the station to find Charqi too tell him what's going on, but she can't find him. Halim who was passing by saw her and headed towards her. He noticed that she was lost and disoriented and asks her what's going on. Raniya tells him about her husband, Halim doesn't understand anything and gets angry. Halim tells Raniya that they were together before, and after the death of her parents in a car accident, she moved away and he followed her to take care of her. Raniya is in shock and doesn't know what to believe.. On her way home, Raniya tries to gather her memory. She strives to recall her memories. She just has flashes of people she seems to know but doesn't remember them. her life turns into hell. The nurse brings her medicine to calm her down, but Raniya does not take them. Raniya believes there is something wrong with her. The fact that she doesn't take her medication awakens some deep buried memories. Raniya runs to Charqi and spits everything she has just remembered. At that time, we discover Driss. A man of power who leads a project under the name of "Jrada Malha" which consists in conditioning people (their past, their memories, etc) to hold high-ranking positions in order to serve the interests of a group of people. Raniya is part of this experience and her life is nothing more than a scenario which is modified as needed. Raniya and through her mental strength, finds out about this plot which made her a guinea pig. She discovers an operation and experience center under her house, she discovers that she has been watched since the beginning. Raniya finds a folder that contains all the information about her and her life. She discovers that everyone around her is part of the conspiracy. The nurse, Lâayachi, Omar, Charqi and Hafida. Terrified, Raniya runs away, with no idea where to go. Raniya calls Halim, the only person she has left and whom she can trust because he is a member of the police forces. Halim picks up Raniya in the middle of the forest and brings her home. She tells him everything and Halim is in total shock as well. She let him in on her secret too and told her that he was aware of such a big project and that he was investigating, but he did not know that she was part of it. Halim takes the file that Raniya had taken from the operations center and heads to the premises where Driss sits. We discover that Halim is part of the operation and his role was to monitor the progress of the work. Halim yells at Driss for his failure and asks him to move forward to the last stage of the project. Raniya wakes up in the morning, but she is in another bedroom. A photo of her and Halim married and a baby's bed at his bedside. At first Raniya doesn't understand what's going on. Halim shows up and informs her that it's the big day that everyone is waiting for. We discover that Raniya was elected president, which means the success of the project and that from the start, she was meant for this position. Except that at the time of the speech, Raniya receives a flash of memory that she is not what they claim, but someone else.
- Fifteen years after having been kidnapped by his European mother and taken to Europe, Mehdi, now in his early twenties, determines to return to Morocco without informing her. The decision to go back is provoked not only by the desire to visit his Moroccan father chez lui and see the country where he spent the first five years of his life, but to fill in the empty spaces in his own identity: two parents, two countries, two very different cultures.