Casablanca is home to kids who sleep in the open air and support themselves through petty crime under the tutelage of Dib, boss of their scruffy underage Mafia. Four of the gang, Ali, Kouka, Omar, and Boubker, rebel against Dib′s oppressive rule and strike out on their own, running away from "home" a second time. When Dib′s thugs try to return them by force, Ali is killed. The remaining three friends stash the body and set off on a quest to give him a proper burial. Bound together by their search, they find meaning, transcendence, and perhaps, peace. Despite their marginalization, the boys long for love. They still dream. Ali′s fantasy was to escape to the sea, become a sailor, become the royal prince, and "meet a lovely woman."Set against the cruel street world, with its incessant rhythm of crime, violence, and degradation, is a sensitive, poetic evocation of the emotions of the protagonists and the dead Ali.dreams.