With never-before-seen footage from the Muqattam recycling village, the film follows a free-spirited seven-year-old girl named Marina. Her family moves from the farmlands of Upper Egypt to Cairo seeking a better life, but as the challenges of their new home arise, Marina has to use her vivid imagination to escape the harshness of her reality.
Marina spends her days riding flying elephants, befriending mystical pigeons, and dodging out of control butcher knives - she even confronts an evil witch. Despite common misconceptions, all this can happen in a documentary. The film transforms a squalid landfill village into a beautiful, dream-like portrait of family, childhood, and spirituality. But also presents shocking statistics about recycling rates in the Zabbaleen Village versus the U.S. that are sure to make audiences think.
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