Smart second generation Amsterdam Moroccan Samir 'Sam' Zafar adores big brother Mohammed 'Mo', who makes him promise to become the family's first graduate, being gifted enough to enter a famous music school as trumpeter. Sam spares no effort after me gets arrested and jailed for drug robbery, and even makes posh, rich autochthonous friends: shy IJsbrand Versluys and his sister Iris, who becomes his lover. Sam never learned to musical notation and is ready to throw everything away when Mo gets convicted to a long jail term after betrayal by his accomplice, and seems to have lost all interest in Sam and his career, but the tide turns.
Promise of Pisa
The story of a Dutch-Moroccan boy who tries to survive at an elite music academy in posh Amsterdam South, while his brother is in prison. Based on the novel by Mano Bouzamour.
