Al Houb Al Mawood

A woman lawyer, married at seventeen and dissatisfied, puts up with her husband’s misbehaviour. The film star Nadia Gondi, known for her roles as vamp and businesswoman, talks of a life sacrificed to work. A cleaning woman who was married at thirteen has decided to get a divorce and resists the pressure of her relatives shocked by her solitary life. A woman writer back from the United States has devoted herself to the Islamist cause, advocates polygamy, but lives alone. In echo to these women’s stories, told through sensitive, tense and subtly composed tableaux, come the men’s tales. A bachelor is waiting until he has saved enough money to marry, perhaps, the woman he loves. A married man complains that his wife is disobedient and is thinking of taking a second wife. These gently bitter tales or affirmed convictions paint the intimate portrait of a society that could well be today’s.