Set in 1950s Tunisia, the film is about a 25-year-old woman, Alia, who returns to her place of birth—a prince's palace in which her mother, Khedija, worked as a house servant and mistress. Alia had fled the palace ten years earlier, at which time she spent burying tortured memories of her childhood. In her visit to pay respects for the death of the prince, Alia wanders through the largely abandoned palace where she is confronted by these memories represented as detailed flashbacks of her childhood. She begins to piece together a narrative about her mother's sexuality and sexual exploitation in a space ordered by gender and class difference, and is re-awakened to her persistent questioning about her father's identity. As Alia negotiates her past, she also deals with her current relationship to her lover, Lotfi, who has asked her to have what seems to be yet another abortion. Her development throughout the film contrasts her awakening to a past of sexual and social servitude which many of the female servants experienced in the palace against her own contested independence fraught with pain, conflict and uncertainty.

1967年的夏天，突尼斯拉葛列特的旅游胜地海滩，三个17岁的女孩：Gigi，西西里人、信奉天主；Meriem，突尼斯与阿拉伯混血儿；Tina，法国犹太人。她们都想趁此夏天体验自己的第一次，作为对家人的挑战。她们的父亲Youssef、Jojo和Giuseppe彼此都是老朋友，他们的友谊因各自的女儿而遭受严峻的考验

The film concerns to men in their early twenties, Hachemi and Farfat, who live in the Tunisian city of Sfax. Hachemi, a carpenter is under a lot of stress because he is about to be married to a woman he is not in love with in an arranged marriage. Farfat is the victim of disparaging graffiti ("Farfat is not a man") painted on wall around their neighbourhood. Actually, we soon find out that it is Farfat himself who has painted the graffiti, and that both he and Hachemi were victims of a child molester when they were younger. Adding to their troubles, Hachemi's parents want to invite Ameur, the molester, to the wedding. Ameur is also a carpenter, and in-fact is the one who taught Hachemi everything he knows about carpentry. - IMDb

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