Directing
Anthology film portraying the stories from the collection Sleepless Nights by Ali Douagi.
Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
The film takes place at an indefinite time, probably at the beginning of the twentieth century. The young Khlifa, bald because of ringworm, was able to freely enter female circles as courier-messenger and enjoy the benefits of this situation. But one day, his hair starts to grow and he has to leave his usual environment. He then asks his boss, the diviner Boubaker, to return his illness.
