A city looms in the middle of the desert. A city rotting in its own wealth. Its smooth, soulless buildings cannot withstand the sandstorms. Its imported modernism, awkward and out of place, encroaches on traditions, exacerbating old habits…
Women are doubly veiled. Liberty is all the more threatened.
Slowly, progressively, the tension in this desert mounts. An unheeded anguish builds up, relieved by fleeting moments of happiness, laughter and sensuality. Until one day when everything comes tumbling down.

CAST
Maria Schneider - Sarah
Laure Killing - Mariame
Michel Albertini - Talal
Tamime Kasdi Chahal - Giorgio
Sandrine Dumas - Dalal
Raoul Ben Amor - Chef homme de main
Rim Turki - Employée de banque
Hamadi Dhoukar - Chauffeur
Hedi Semlali - Hôtelier

Producer
Tarak Ben Ammar

Written and directed by
Randa Chahal

Music
Michel Portal

Director of photography
Yorgos Arvanitis

Editor
Yves Deschamps

Sound
Fawzi Thabet et Gérard Rousseau

Production managers
Mokhtar Labidi
Tao Guiga

Executive producer
Hassan Daldoul

Sound editor
Catherine Bonnetat

Production design
Sylvain Chauvelot

Director
Slim Ennaceur

A Franco-Italo-Tunisian coproduction
Carthago Films
Leil Productions
La Sept Paris
APEC
Radio Television Tunisienne

with
The French Ministry of Culture and
and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Canal +
and R.A.I.

Year 1991
Format 35 m/m Couleur
Duration 1h30 min

Distributors
Leil productions (Paris, France)

Festival
Official Selection at the Venise Festival of 1991