We arrive with New York heiress Lucy Savage fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into the surprising, diverse and degenerate world of Tangier in 1955.

A tragically separated couple must find each other in another life to break a spell on their town, but the arrival of two tourists threaten their chance.