A seductively fluid and tactile drama from the writer and director Karin Albou explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of it's owner. The film focuses on the intense friendship of two 16-year-old girls living in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. Nour, a Muslim, eagerly anticipates her wedding to a handsome cousin; Myriam, a French Jew, is furiously resisting her betrothal to a much older doctor whose money is needed to pay fines imposed by the Nazis. Filmed with subtle eroticism and dreamy intimacy, the girls' bond becomes a compelling love story that will be tested not only by personal grudges but also by anti-Jewish propaganda and inflamed animosity for the French colonists.