The World on a Dove's Wing
★ 6.5 · 1989 · 128m · Comedy · Drama
Reda, a taxi driver, drives the wealthy widow Imane who has just returned from abroad. She lets him drive her to run errands, and he helps her break her sweetheart, the engineer Hassan, out from a mental hospital.
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