Salvation Army 2013 Abdellah is a young gay man navigating the sexual, racial and political climate of Morocco Growing up in a large family in a working class neighborhood, Abdellah is caught between a distant father, an authoritarian mother, an older brother whom he adores and a handful of predatory older men, in a society that denies his homosexuality As a college student, Abdellah moves to Geneva and while faced with the new possibilities of freedom, he grapples with the loss of his homeland SALVATION ARMY, the directorial debut for Abdellah Taia an acclaimed Moroccan and Arab writer is adapted from his novel of the same name Taia is the first writer of his descent to speak out openly about his homosexuality