Alexandria: by turn Hellenistic, Greek, Roman, Copt… and then a petit Paris at the end of the 1930s. Inspired by the texts of Cavafy and the writer Lawrence Durell, the film is a portrait of a city that has long been at the heart of the Arab world.A singular and poetic evocation of what Alexandria was, a multifaceted city, when it was at the heart of the Arab and European world......