Hassine Soufi

Over forty and in a bit of a midlife crisis, Tunisian film director Raouf is prone to excessive drinking when not engaged in an argument with his French-born wife Lou (Marianne Basler). One respite to Raouf's dreary life is a recent film assignment -- to shoot an autobiographical film about his childhood. While working on the script, Raouf recalls his childhood home life under the strictures instituted by his devoutly religious father. The polar opposite of Raouf's father was his uncle Mansour, a jolly, life-loving soul who introduced Raouf to cinema through his work as a wandering film projectionist, which angered and shocked his father to no end but proved to be the most pivotal development in the youngster's life. Through cinema, Raouf found his place in this world and came-of-age -- something he may have to revisit in his adult life if he wishes to salvage his marriage.

Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the city at the same time: the millionaire Eric Burns; the German woman Eva Miller who, with her little daughter Gudrun, makes herself a living by doing frauds and small thefts; the smart gangster Rustum Wadi who is looking for a talisman that at that moment is in the hands of Andrews, a homosexual British collector. Yaasin is supposed to protect Burns, but when Andrew's corpse appears the case takes an unexpected turn.

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

舞台は1936年。プリンストン大学で教鞭を執る高名な考古学者インディアナ・ジョーンズ教授（インディ）には、世界中の宝物を探し発見するというトレジャーハンターとしての顔があった。ある日、陸軍諜報部よりインディの下にナチス・ドイツがタニスの遺跡を発見して聖櫃（アーク）の発掘に着手したという情報が舞い込む。また情報部が傍受したドイツ軍の電報によれば、聖櫃の在り処を示す重大な手がかりラーの杖飾りはインディの恩師であるアブナー・レイヴンウッド教授の手にあるという。何としてでもナチスより先に聖櫃を手に入れろとの依頼を受け、インディは聖櫃の争奪戦に臨む。