Script Supervisor
Lilia es una viuda aún joven que vive con su hija adolescente Salma. Su existencia es enteramente normal, hasta el momento en que, al intentar proteger a su hija, quien mantiene un romance con un músico de cabaret, descubre la vida nocturna en dichos lugares. Allí, un atrayente e inquietante mundo nuevo, lleno de placeres desconocidos, se abre ante la protagonista, quien descubre en ese ámbito, además de la amistad, su gran talento para la danza, a través de la cual recupera su sexualidad reprimida ante la presión social. Así, Lilia pasa de madre ejemplar a deseada mujer de la noche, aunque eso signifique competir con Salma por el amor del mismo hombre.
Continuity
This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a "chess bar" in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women. All this changes with the arrival of Sarah, a sexually liberated, uninhibited metisse who easily lures Youssef into an affair. Soon he is dreaming not about chess but about opening a coffee bar in Genoa. The friendship is destroyed, the bar sold. Youssef, dressed in Western clothes, waits to leave with Sarah; will she show up? Said boards a train and sits down next to a Westernized woman bearing a resemblance to Sarah
