Zadig, adapted from Voltaire’s Oriental tale, is a story of lost love set in the ancient city of Babylon. A lush world under the warmth of an orange sun is shattered when the main character is struck in the eye by an arrow and blinded. Shot in the exquisite landscape of Ouarzazate, known as the Moroccan Hollywood, this is director Alexander Graziani’s first film on this scale. It is a story of Fate, for the character Zadig, and for the filmmakers themselves as on the long road home, only hours after filming had finished, the film was stolen from the back of the van by a man on a moped.