Portrait of contemporary Tunisian society through the eyes of a young orphan named Aziza who, with her adopted family, leaves the old Arab quarter of Tunis to settle in new housing on the outskirts of the city.

Tunisia in 1980: a developing country, a society undergoing rapid change. A family leaves the Medina of Tunis to settle in one of the new popular cities on the outskirts of the Capital. Pushed by his son Ali, a small businessman, the old craftsman Béchir agreed to sell his house to, he believes, become another, more modern one. They therefore move into a new home with Aziza, a niece since childhood.

A new neighborhood, new neighbors, a new daily life, for the old man it is an immense upheaval and loneliness. Aziza, raised in the silence and darkness of the old houses of the Medina, discovers other places, other people, makes a friend, Aïcha. The days pass in every way the same, punctuated by domestic chores, Ali's hopes and lamentable failures... The sudden arrival of an "Oil Emir" will once again turn their lives upside down, but not in the way we think. naively hopes by believing in the magic of black gold... The Emir will leave... with Aïcha, irresistibly attracted by the mirage of an easy life and, who knows, of a revenge that she attributes to the benevolence of the "Heavenly Light" that believers await on the morning of the 27th day of Ramadan.

Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar
Tunisia - 1980 - 1 h 40 min
Screenplay: Abdellatif Ben Ammar
Image: Youssef Sahraoui
Editing: Moufida Tlatli
Music: Daniel Scott Maddocks
Son: Hechmi Joulak
With Yasmine Khlat, Raouf Ben Amor, Dalila Rammes, Ensaf Cherif, Mouna Noureddine, Mohamed Zinet, Jebali Taoufik, Noureddine Kasbaoui, Jamila Ourabi, Béchira Cherif, Noureddine Mahfoud, Abdellatif Hamroussi (or Abdellatif Hamrouni).
Tunisian-Algerian co-production
Audience: All audiences
Format: color
Tashkent International Festival * First Prize for Female Interpretation for Yasmine Khlat 1980 | J.C.C * Golden Tanit 1980 | Cannes Film Festival - * "Directors' Fortnight" Selection Special Jury Grand Prize of the Karlovy-Vary International Festival Special Jury Prize for the best technical quality of African film at the Ouagadougou Festival O C I C Grand Prize in Rome Special Prize of O P I C in Berlin Selected at the 1982 Toronto Festival.

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