Occidentalist

A young, ambitious archeologist, Malcolm, is hired to lead a new archaeological expedition into French Morocco, but an old menace from his past begins challenging his role, forcing him to rethink everything. Now forced to work together, despite their mutual animosity, Malcolm struggles to accept the very man who ruined his past and turns to another member for moral support and guidance, a highly regarded, middle-aged explorer who is quick to befriend him.Now caught between the civil turmoil of French Protectorate law and the vicious arm of Constable Pierre, Malcolm and his team of young and old explorers struggle to survive and keep their discoveries of ancient secrets from disappearing into the wrong hands. But just when it seems things could not get any worse, a closer, less familiar, malevolence soon contests the group's very purpose and hurls them into a state of forced survival. With a tenacious drive to live, will Malcolm succeed in pulling his men together from the depths of disillusionment and manage to escape the many deadly obstacles that await them along the way? Or will it be too late to save themselves from each other and the many dangers lurking around them?