Raxid, a young immigrant from Morocco who is fed up of working as a laborer, decides to leave Paris to devote himself to his vocation for athletics in Casablanca, with the record man Saïd Aouita as his trainer. When he is in Barcelona, in his way to Morocco, someone steals his wallet and he finds himself without his documentation, his airplane ticket and his money. He has to stay in Barcelona, where he ends up becoming a very important personality of art and culture.