The Meeting

In southeastern Tunisia, Salem and Halima spend months waiting for news of their son Ahmed, who has been smuggled overseas to Italy.

Mounira sells fricassees in a used car market, a resolutely masculine place. She has an ambiguous relationship with two men, between desire, seduction and her deep need to assert her place in this world. Mounira tries to sublimate her life as best she can to escape the harsh daily life of this hostile environment.

A forty-year-old writer lives alone, only her cat holds her company. The solitude made her indifferent to the importance for her life. One day, she learns that one of her manuscripts is going to be published, at the very moment when she thought about abandoning everything; writing and maybe even life. However, she messes it up, the news of the publication arrives too late.

The unexpected departure of a long-time colleague from Ayda's call centre shakes up her routine. Having harboured unspoken feelings for him, Ayda is thrown into a series of events that force her to rethink her life, her relationship with time, her surroundings, and herself.

One winter evening, under the conditions of a state of emergency and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Farid and Salima's young son goes out without announcing his destination. The mother is worried and tries to contact him, but she cannot reach him. She urges her husband to go out and fetch him. Between worry, confinement, and the stress of remote work, the atmosphere at home becomes tense. The weather worsens, power outages occur, tension rises a notch and turns into a confrontation between the mother and the father.