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The Arab Spring. A Tunisian Kleptocrat flees to Palermo leaving his art collection behind. Donating the stone head of a pharaoh to Egypt will buy him political asylum. Only it’s buried in a desert village. To retrieve it, he hires antiques dealers Lou and Benny who are mourning the death of their only child. A Breeder has built a small ostrich farm over the buried container. The couple buy him off, move him and his unruly 7 year old Son into their hotel, and start digging. The Breeder joins a protest against the deep state, is arrested, and disappears into the prison system. Reluctantly, Lou takes charge of his Son.

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Benny is still digging away when a Bedouin leads him to a shaft on the OTHER side of the village. Instead of the head, he finds only scraps of the Kleptocrat’s collection. His hired hand attacks him to pocket ancient jewelry. Benny passes his find on to his wife, and dies from a head wound. In Palermo to deliver the jewels, Lou clashes with the the Son. The stone head in his possession again, the Kleptocrat reveals using Lou & Benny as decoys, while his minions smuggled it out of Tunisia. Lou executes him in the name of her adopted son. When they meet again, the boy wraps his arms around her.

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Written by: Vangelis Seitanidis & Eric Collins

Directed by: Vangelis Seitanidis

Director of photography : Ioan Meltzer

Producer: Nikos Moustakas

Co- producer: Piranesi Experience

Co- producer: Graal