Summer in Tangiers. After the death of the patriarch, family members congregate for three days of mourning in the ancestral villa in order to share the loss and to take their leave of him, all as envisioned by Muslim tradition. For the women, this means changing their swimming costumes for djellaba and preparing the house for the opulent funeral. Preparations are in full flow until the youngest daughter arrives. Sofia, who has been living in New York for some years now, is an actress – though her repertoire of roles is limited to Islamist terrorists in American TV series. However, the funeral turns into a settling of scores between the sisters who start to rebel in various ways against their father’s traditional norms. With bittersweet comedy, director Laïla Marrakchi uses Rock the Casbah as an atmospheric cameo of an upper-class Moroccan family in transition.