The Jemaa el Fna, Marrakesh's legendary central square, is the seat of an ancient storytelling tradition. When two young foreigners go missing from the Jemaa, Hassan, who is renowned as the Storyteller of Marrakesh, invites his audience to contribute to piecing together the story of what might have happened to them. The Storyteller of Marrakesh is 'an enigmatic fable in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights' - The New York Times