Soil

Episode 1

Pilot

Thu, Mar 17, 202249 mins

First- generation Mororoccan immigrant Omar Boulasmoum started a funerary family business, repatriating deceased compatriots for Muslim burial in the old country. He now wants to retire and hand it over to his daughter and de facto- right hand Nadia and her eager, ambitious but gullible husband Rachid, for half, and son Ismael 'Smile', who doesn't even want the other half. Smile seeks to make his own fortune with his autochthonous Belgian buddy Jean-Baptiste 'JB', whose grand inventions never earn actual profits, like the 'pizza slicer' the bank refuses to invest in. Hearing Rachid turned down repatriating Nabil's father as the family can't pay the reduced tariff, the partners in crime offer to take the corpse along on a legitimate errant to Morocco for the firm, without any experience or authorization. Worse, they are victims of vehicle theft, hence loose the corpse, which Nabil wants buried in Brussels anyway. Yet they get it back and Ismael finally has a great idea: using the Moroccan soil Rachid received as a kit instead of the baked tiles he ordered to bury in 'sacred' homeland soil without costly repatriation.