A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.