Pierre Clémenti

Harry's vivid imagination has him convinced that, inside, a wolf lurks. Will it break free? Is Harry, as the 60s rock group Steppenwolf phrased it, "Born to Be Wild." Harry, age 48, is a Central European intellectual in the full sway of a mid-life crisis. One he intends to put paid to by committing suicide when he is 50 - will he be rescued by the mysterious Hermine and the Magic Theatre?

Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Kate Winslet) heads for Morocco with her children, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea. After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal, sexual gears are set in motion, and he moves in, serving as a surrogate father.