The first feature from Morocco directed by a woman, A Door to the Sky is a Sufi tale retold in a metaphoric language of today. The beautifully shot film tells of a young Europeanized Moroccan's rediscovery of her Islamic identity in her own sensitive, individualistic way-as a woman working with other women. Nadia (Zakia Tahiri) arrives from Paris in minidress and tinted hair at the family mansion in Fez to see her dying father, himself a Westernized family patriarch. After his death, having been moved by the chants at his funeral, Nadia makes the empty family mansion a home again, her way-filling it with holy women, runaways, and battered wives. In this manner she moves toward enlightenment and gentleness.