Fares
정신분석가 셀마는 파리를 떠나 고향 튀니지로 돌아와 소박한 상담실을 개원한다. 하지만 첫 날부터 웃지 못할 난관들이 속출하면서 여전사 셀마의 고독한 분투기가 시작된다.
독립적인 여성 누라는 병원 세탁소 일로 생계를 꾸려 세 아이를 양육한다. 남편 자밀은 사기와 강도를 일삼아 감옥에 들락거리는 신세다. 남편이 또 감옥에 간 동안 그녀는 라사드와 연인 관계가 된다. 둘의 관계가 발각되면 5년형을 살아야 하기에, 누라는 이혼 청구서를 낸다. 하지만 승인을 며칠 앞두고 남편이 돌아오면서 둘의 꿈은 무산된다. 둘의 관계를 알게 된 남편이 복수하려 하면서 벌어지는 일련의 사건들은 튀니지의 결혼과 이혼에 대한 법률 및 경찰로 대변되는 사회 제도가 얼마나 여성의 삶에 부당하게 작용하는지 고통스럽게 보여준다.
Even though he's been living with Fouad for three years, Malik is going to marry Halima. Since Fouad doesn't accept this marriage, which would imply a total upheaval of their everyday life, Malik makes him promise not to attend the wedding, which will take place in his parents’ village. As the ceremony approaches, the pressure builds. Will Malik choose to save face in front of his family and the wedding guests or will he choose to save the relationship with the one he loves?
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Si Radhi
Quiet Si Radji gets an idea when his screaming and unpleasant wife falls down from the balcony and sprain her foot. He will set up traps...
Moncef
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.
This film tells the tragicomic destiny of three friends. The same age, they are all three of humble origins. The story begins in the 1970s in Nafta and evokes their childhood.
