The Season of Men

Aicha was married off at eighteen. She lives on the island of Djerba. Her husband Said spends most of the year in Tunis. He works there and comes to the village once a year. The women have grown used to that arrangement. Aicha does not accept it, though. She breaks with tradition and decides to join her husband. In Tunis she earns money weaving rugs. She builds something with her own labour. Said, though, expects something from her. He wants her to give him a son. That demand shapes Aicha’s life. She cannot step outside her mother in law’s word. The order inside the house closes around her again. Rabia Ben Abdallah and Sabah Bouzouita appear in the hundred and twenty two minute film, a Tunisian and French co-production Moufida Tlatli finished in 2000.