SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

URBANARIAS (2017) SIDNEY OUTLAW as FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. (PHOTO CREDIT: Teresa Wood)

STAGE DIRECTOR / DESIGNER: Grant Preisser | MUSIC DIRECTOR: Robert Wood   |   LIGHTING: Lucrecia Briceno   |  COSTUME COORDINATOR: Lauren Pedersen

Photo: Mark Abramowicz

“A Chaplin Symphony,” performed live-to-film with Chaplin’s piublic domain “City Lights” by the Laredo Philharmonic, conducted by Brendan Townsend, Laredo, TX October 19, 2019. p/c: Laredo Philharmonic

For six seasons, the “Tramp Orchestra” put together terrific performances with limited rehearsal of Hagen’s musically-challenging scores for silent films under the direction of Erin Freeman at the Wintergreen Music Festival, July 2015-August 2022. p/c: Gilda Lyons

A young audience member watches “Too Much Johnson” unfold as Erin Freeman conducts the Tramp Orchestra live-to-film in Hagen’s score at the Wintergreen Festival, July 2022. p/c: Michelle Merrill

Live-to-film performance of “A Chaplin Symphony” to the Chaplin public domain silent “City Lights” by the Seasons Chamber Orchestra / Aaron Hirsch, conductor, October 15, 2021, Yakima, WA p/c: Pat Strosahl

Piano Concerto No. 2: The Tramp premiered live-to-film by the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra / Peter Marshall / Erin Freeman July 24, 2015. p/c: Tom Steele

DH and Peter Marshall, soloist for Piano Concerto No. 2: The Tramp at the Wintergreen Music Festival, July 2015. p/c: Gilda Lyons

Chamber Music on the Fox / soloist Yana Reznik, perform Piano Concerto No. 2: The Tramp live-to-film with Chaplin’s “The Tramp” at the Elgin Short Film Festival, Elgin, IL, September 23, 2017.

Daron Hagen with Erin Freeman, artistic director and conductor of the six film scores composed for the Wintergreen Music Festival between 2015-2022. p/c: Gilda Lyons

“The Passion of Jekyll and Hyde” performed live-to-film to the 1920’s silent, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” / Wintergreen Festival Orchestra / Erin Freeman, July 12, 2019. p/c: Paul Moon / Zen Violence Films

“A Chaplin Suite” performed live-to-film accompanying Chaplin’s “A Dog’s Life” by the Tramp Orchestra / Erin Freeman, conductor , Wintergreen Music Festival, Virginia, July 28, 2017 p/c: Atticus Hagen

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSIS When she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death. Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

SYNOPSISWhen she checks in to the Cypress, a run-down pensione in Morocco, the life of Lizzy Holmes, a young, naïve American travel writer, unravels. She becomes entangled in the world of its denizens, all of whose lives orbit Ahmed, a charismatic, handsome, morally pliable Tunisian. Teddy, a dissolute English expat, owner of the Cypress, keeps Ahmed in his employ to satisfy all desires. Not knowing that Ahmed is married to Asilah, an Arabic woman who was trafficked, sold, branded in shame, Lizzy befriends her and helps her to learn English. The ensuing love triangle fuels Lizzy’s self-destructive submission to aphasia and drugs. A plan devised for Asilah to leave the country ends in betrayal and death.Alerted to Asilah’s tragic death by Lizzy’s increasingly distressing letters, and drawn to Morocco by her concern for her, Claire, Lizzy’s older sister, arrives in Tangiers in the company of Harry Hopkins, an American businessman she met in Paris. She does not know that Teddy and Harry traffic together in young Arab girls. Ahmed discovers that Harry is responsible for the rape of his wife. He draws a knife and attempts to avenge Asilah’s death. Teddy, who has signed ownership of the Cypress over to Ahmed as an expression of his love for him, takes the knife, and plunges it into Harry’s chest. Teddy is arrested, but confident of his release. Lizzy has vanished. Claire, determined to find Lizzy, remains at the Cypress, with Ahmed.

ORSON REHEARSED (2021)

An Operafilm (CD)

Robert Frankenberry, Robert Orth, Omar Mulero / Fifth House Ensemble, Peter Marshall / Roger Zahab

Naxos Records 8.669049

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