Peter Webber, who directed The Girl With the Pearl Earring, is set to direct The Spider’s House, a romantic drama set in 1950s Morocco.

The film based on a novel by Paul Bowles and adapted for screen by Laurie Cooke. The story focuses on two American former lovers whose paths cross in Fez, Morocco, as clashes between pro-independence insurgents and French colonial overlords escalate.

Filming is scheduled to start in Morocco early next year.