Zaina, Rider of the Atlas
Year
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2005
Plot
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Set "a long time ago," story starts with the funeral of Selma, mother of 11-year-old Zaina, whom she'd raised on her own after being abandoned by Zaina's birth-father, Mustapha. Selma had won a horse race disguised as a man, forcing Mustapha to disown her. Passing through town on his way to the latest edition of the horse race, Mustapha is confronted by the daughter he never knew he had and by local overlord Omar el-Mansour, who had an unrequited passion for Selma and now wants custody of Zaina. Mustapha hightails it across the Atlas Mountains toward Marrakesh, slowly bonding with the stubborn Zaina and pursued by Omar.
