Larbi Yacoubi

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.

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.

Diana est une femme d'affaires riche, dure, un vrai requin de la finance. Clive, le mari de Diana, premier secrétaire à l'ambassade d'Angleterre à Madrid, vit de plus en plus mal cette situation. Il n'a qu'un seul refuge, son aquarium, et sa passion pour les poissons. Jusqu'au jour où Diana fait jeter par un domestique les occupants de l'aquarium dans un bassin extérieur. Jusque là, Clive rêvait souvent qu'il tuait sa femme, désormais ses envies de meurtre sont encore plus tangibles, d'autant qu'une lettre anonyme l'a informé que Diana le trompait avec Franz Adler, son ami et médecin...