Mohamed Akhzam

Babel -- Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving six different families.

In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, and displacement, each character discovers that it is family that ultimately provides solace. In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out - detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost - lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves - as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.

When an American woman visiting Morocco is accidentally shot by two young boys, repercussions are set off that reverberate all across the world. A story of how miscommunication creates conflict.

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.