Lamine Nahdi

In Tunis, Fethi, a pretty face like Brando, and his friend Bannour, naive and shy, are employed in the pastry shop of the Italian Madame Rita. Their only concern is picking up Souad and her cousin Latifa in their convertible to take them for a ride "on the Wave side".

Clovis Blaireau, détective privé maladroit, habitant chez sa mère , est engagé par Nadège de Courtaboeuf pour faire suivre son mari Prosper et prouver l'adultère à des fins de divorce. Le détective tente de devenir l'ami du mari volage par tous les moyens. Cependant Nadège entretient une relation extra-conjugale, et son amant décide de supprimer Prosper en provoquant un attentat.

The film describes the adventures of two young simple peasants en route to the capital. Their journey begins on a national road where the two friends hitchhike to Tunis. Their mishaps lead them from the olive groves of the Tunisian hinterland to the biggest hotels in the city of Hammamet.

Barely relieved from a serious depression and against the advice of his psychiatrist, Slah, theater director, mentally weakened by his career, announces to his wife Amel, a rich woman who finances his projects, his decision to mount the famous play Essoud (The Dam) of Mahmoud Messadi renowned for its complexity. But the same evening, driving his car, Slah overthrows a young woman named Aisha. At first distraught, he then experiences a strange fascination for this beautiful young girl contrarian who becomes his friend and his muse. Amel, her husband's moral, emotional and financial support, convinced the director of the theater to program Le Barrage. Although suffering in silence of the presence of Aisha, Amel decides for love for her husband to invite the young woman near them, in the field of her parents, in an oasis of the south of Tunisia. A strange three-way household is formed when doubts and suspicions, desires and temptations, love and complexities are revealed.