Lisa Makhedjouf

Yasmine, an eighteen-year-old girl, visits her boyfriend whom she has not seen for two weeks but not everything is going as usual. The Tunisian revolution of January 14, 2011 made him understand the importance of political commitment. An argument broke out with her boyfriend. Back home, she caught her brother talking on the phone with their father who had stayed in Tunisia: he did not want his children to participate in the demonstration that would take place in the Republic. He opposes his authoritarianism to his son’s arguments…

The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.