A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she has to face the struggles, sacrifices and the price that a woman has to pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male dominated society.
Representa varios períodos de la vida de San Francisco: la juventud y la primera conversión en 1206, el proceso que inflige a su padre, el nacimiento del núcleo histórico de Fraternitas y la salida a Tierra Santa hasta la redacción de las reglas y la muerte, dirigiéndose el problema del legado de su mensaje en la diferente interpretación que le darán Chiara y Elia.
Tina y su ex marido Rudi viajan juntos a Marrakech para la boda de su hija Anna con su novio de siempre, Markus. Pronto la alegría de la madre se convierte en una decepcionante sorpresa cuando se entera de que no se va a casar con su novio, sino con Karim, su compañero de trabajo marroquí.
After turning away from her Turkish family, young Ayla works as a kindergarten teacher and enjoys the liberties of being single. When she meet photographer Ayhan, she ignores all qualms and falls head over heels in love with him. Then Hatice, the mother of one of the kindergarten kids, is desperately seeking Ayla′s help: Hatice is living in fear since she has decided to divorce her husband, thereby enraging her strict Muslim family. Ayla takes her and the kid in, only later realizing that Ayhan is one of Hatice′s brothers.
