The trunks of return
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Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country has an immense sea and lives in a refugee camp in the Saharan desert. Marián, a young Sahrawi girl studying in Paris, returns to her village and establishes a strong emotional bond with the little girl.
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1996-07-12
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