The Red Nightingale tells us of a young Berber, Malena, who flees her tribe to Algiers to avoid a forced marriage. Along the way, we meet another Berber, Samantha, banished to N. Africa by Augustine. She starts a line of cave dreamers and the dreams ... Read more

The Red Nightingale tells us of a young Berber, Malena, who flees her tribe to Algiers to avoid a forced marriage. Along the way, we meet another Berber, Samantha, banished to N. Africa by Augustine. She starts a line of cave dreamers and the dreams transport us out of past to Malena, who wants be a jazz singer in Paris, for which she has a natural talent. Malena ends up in a sleazy cabaret in a torn Algiers. In her subsequent struggle to earn enough money to pay her way out, she scrubs, sings, runs as a go between for her boss and leads émigrés to the Moroccan border, bound for Spain to eke out a living. Malena's exploits soon embroils her in a French Secret Service plot to steal back Algerian oil. She nearly realizes her escape to Paris with a CIA operative, Lytton Mallory, with whom she falls in love. Just when Paris is within reach, Lytton is murdered. With the Algerian Security is closing in, Malena must find another way out. Less