Nour Eddine Lakhmari
BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.
The 10-year-old Badre lives with his parents in a small coastal town, Safi in Morocco. His father is a fisherman, like most men in the village. Every day, Badre waits for him to return from the sea. One day a traveling puppet theater appears. Badre is upset when the performance ends with the play's main character, a poor fisherman, being overpowered by a sea monster.
