Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been separated since the conflict between Morocco and Algeria during the Black Demonstration of 1975. After being given an opportunity to assist an elderly blind man, she accepts the offer and eventually finds herself agreeing to marry him. For Henia, this is a chance to get the necessary papers for her return to Algeria. For the old man, it’s a chance to start over. For his son, it is a disgrace.
The Green March is a film where the destinies of a handful of men and women intertwine, all united by the common goal of peacefully fighting for the freedom of a colonized territory, driven by the same dream: to contribute to the construction of modern Morocco. It is also the story of Zhor, who risked her life 40 years ago to bring her child into the world on the land of occupied Moroccan Sahara.
Said and Amine are two students from Casablanca dreaming of Europe. They end up in a small village in the North of Morocco. With the help of the schoolteacher, they leave for the European coast on board a small boat. They are shipwrecked. The sea washes Amine back onto the coast of the village. Said is washed away on a Spanish beach. Spain seems strange to Said. And in the Moroccan village, Amine notices strange things happening...