Zohra Sarrouj was 27 years old when she decided to embark on a dinghy boat for Spain. She left her six year old daughter together with her family behind in her native land, a rural village called Sidi Abdelkrim, south of Casablanca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a clear day, she could see Spain from Morocco. And she grew up longing to touch with her own hands what she saw so close and yet so far off in the distance. With a per capital Gross Domestic Product of less than 3.000\u20ac as compared 25.000\u20ac here in Spain, our country is a naturally desirable destination for many who try to make a life for themselves with scant resources and even scanter horizons in rural areas of our neighbouring Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zohra made it to the Spanish coast, not far from the town of Conil de la Frontera. But she didn\u2019t make it alive. Hypothermia nipped her dream of Europe in the bud in the Strait of Gibraltar. This work documents the young Moroccan\u2019s last journey starting in Algeciras with the funeral company in charge of repatriating her corpse. It also tells the end of the story rarely seen: how the family and friends receive the last return home of those who cannot come back alive to tell about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zohra Sarrouj was 27 years old when she decided to embark on a dinghy boat for Spain. She left her six year old daughter together with her family behind in her native land, a rural village called Sidi Abdelkrim, south of Casablanca. On a clear day, she could see Spain from Morocco. And she grew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4122,"menu_order":337,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"edicion":[199],"class_list":["post-4260","finalistas","type-finalistas","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edicion-199"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n