North Africa - rapid tourist expansion and climate change have gone unchecked. The Sahara creeps towards the coast, and all remaining fertile land is a playground for a mass of foreign tourists.

Morocco follows a self-absorbed, charismatic Irish property developer as he travels through the country with his guide, vetting potential investments for the property-hungry nouveau riche in Ireland. As he passes through the breathtaking yet parched landscape, increasingly confrontational conversations with his guide, plus the unravelling of bad business decisions back home, undermine his confidence and his reasons for being there.

Sheltered and exhausted from the success of his privileged life, Simon is greatly unsettled by his experiences in Africa. Feeling alone, afraid, paranoid, unable to communicate, his most mundane activities become fraught with tension and frustration. No phone, no email, no Arabic, no French, no friends – his usual  tricks of commerce and charm fail him. He becomes disconnected and lost, wandering at night through darkened alleys in the medina, and eventually abandoned on the side of a desert road. The anxiety he displays provides us with the subtext for the film; a critique of Western fear of the unknown, of Africa, of the Muslim world.

Morocco examines the effect of property speculation on the developing world – the impact of money made in one place being, perhaps carelessly, invested somewhere else. In Morocco, the once colonized Irish become the new colonists - absentee landlords in a parched land ravaged by carelessness and greedy speculation.