To follow a new trend initiated by American advertisers, a female director, Margaux Bonhomme launches a casting to find women who speak, with the collaboration of casting director, Alexis Millet.
John Locke es un historiador británico que se ha instalado en Marrakech con el objetivo de redactar un libro sobre el pictorismo oriental. Durante su estancia una serie de sueños eróticos irán adquiriendo intensidad, sueños que incluyen sado masoquismo con una dama vestida de blanco, la cual parece ser una dama que en el siglo XIX fue ejecutada por adulterio. Esa mujer de sus sueños se parece a una actriz que vive en la zona y, desoyendo los consejos de su sirvienta y amante, acaba aceptando una invitación para acudir a la villa de dicha actriz.
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
