Touda only dreams of one thing: being a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan performer. She belts out songs about resistance, love and emancipation, passed down from generation to generation. Every evening, she performs in bars under the gaze of men in her tiny village while hoping for a better future for her and her son. Disrespected and shamed, she sets her sights on leaving for the bright lights of Casablanca…

Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women, with the police on their tail, embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.

　　阿卜拉的丈夫去世之后，她和8岁的女儿瓦尔达相依为命。为了养家糊口，阿卜拉在卡萨布兰卡的家中经营起了一间手工面包店，以自制面包和传统摩洛哥糕点为主，厨房通过一扇金属百叶窗和街道相连。一天，一个叫萨米亚的年轻女子闯入了她们平静的生活。萨米亚怀有身孕，想来找一份工作。尽管阿卜拉拒绝这样的陌生来访，她的女儿早已被萨米亚吸引，接纳了她。谁也没有想到，她们的生活就此发生了改变……