Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is one of the last European colonies in Africa as well as a land border between the African continent and Europe. A blind spot.

In transit through the city, Malik and his friends, underages from Morocco, try to reach Europe by any means necessary.

Day after night, they make the 400 blows, survey the city in all directions, turn it inside out like a glove like seismographs revealing the most burning present like the movements of the most distant past, take all the risks to cross the barriers, to cross the waters of the harbour, climbing on the boats…

To remain there, as if dead before being born? Rather "burn the sea" than die before having lived.

Director's note

The film works on certain blind spots in the Western world. At the same time, by portraying children living in the streets, it shows how resistant subjectivities gradually take shape as proposals for inhabiting the world.

TRAILER OBSCURE NIGHT - GOODBYE HERE, ANYWHERE from Noir Production 2 on Vimeo.

Locarno Film Festival 2023

With the support of Eurimage, des Cinémas du Monde et aides à l'écriture et au développement du CNC, de l'Office Fédéral de la Culture et de Cinéforom, de la Loterie Romande et de la Fondation Abbé-Pierre.