Sweet And Bitter

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 husbands 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 threeway household is formed when doubts and suspicions desires and temptations love and complexities are revealed