Tunis, 1942. Nour and Myriam, sixteen years old, have been friends since childhood. They live in the same apartment house in an area of modest means where Jews and Muslims live together harmoniously. Each girl secretly desires to live the other’s life: while Nour is unhappy that she can’t attend school like Myriam, Myriam dreams of the love leading to Nour’s engagement to her cousin Khaled, seeing him as a sort of Prince Charming. But Khaled is unable to find a job, the engagement lengthens and the prospect of sexual relations is postponed. In November 1942 the German army enters Tunis and the Nazis assail the Jewish community with fierce prohibitions. Tita, Myriam’s mother, loses her right to work and, plunging into debt, decides to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor. Myriam’s dreams of love have suddenly vanished… |
