In Tunisia, Commissioner Ali and Khaled investigate the ritualistic murder of a young woman. Her limbs have been severed, her head is missing, and in its place, the killer has grotesquely sewn the head of a dog.
Youssef, a nobody with tons of debts and nothing in his life, is offered a job by his uncle to oversee the construction of an elementary school in the far away rural town of Ragouj. He learns the good and bad of his new home and its people.
