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Until the 1990s, the rural desert town of Zammour, Tunisia, relied exclusively on lamp oil and gas for lighting. There were neither roads nor electricity to bring in images from the outside world; instead, the community sat around a crackling campfire telling stories for entertainment. In 1989, when France started broadcasting public television in rural Tunisia, people in Zammour exchanged their goats for televisions and the town’s culture shifted radically. Young Tunisians grew up and emigrated to Paris, lured by the romantic images of the city they saw on screen, only to discover the day-to-day reality was far more crushing and alienating than what they witnessed on TV. “I found a paradise, but with devils in it,” says director Saber Zammouri, who turns the lens on himself and his friends. The result is a poetic and spare documentary that unfolds between the deserts of Tunisia and the chaos of a metropolis, in search of the meaning of the journey between these two spaces.