Summary Zohra is a professional dancer active in the evening, in a recognized village hall of the Medina of Tunis. Her manager is none other than her husband Mustapha, helped by a Jew, Joseph. Zohra lives in comfortable conditions and lives in a villa with a garden. One day, she does not find her cleaning lady Habiba, a beautiful and young girl, become a dancer in the same village hall and who takes the place of Zohra with the help of Slimane, a friend of the family who becomes her manager and rents for her a floor in a house in the Medina before marrying her in secret. Habiba finally leaves Slimane after insulting him about his poverty. As for Mustapha, he divorces Zohra and marries Habiba; he becomes his manager in an even more lucrative village hall located in La Goulette. It is then that a mad fan of love follows Habiba and ends up killing her, even if Mustapha is accused of the murder. Mannoubiya and El Hadj, brother and sister, are big Tunisian bourgeois by their mother. Taher Blach, Mannoubiya's husband, is a city dweller who El Hadj lets work in the cafe inherited from his mother. El Hadj also offers all her mother's jewelry to her sister, as well as one of the two houses in the Medina, which is worth more than the share she would have inherited according to Islamic jurisprudence. Mannoubiya and Taher have three young daughters, while El Hadj, a widower, has two sons: Slimane and Azzouz. Mannoubiya wishes to marry his two eldest children to his nephews: Hallouma loves Azzouz and Aïcha loves Slimane. While El Hadj works in a railway company, his colleague, a poor worker, dies and leaves him a young girl, Zeineb. He lodges her with his sister and intends to marry her to his elder, Slimane. However, Slimane comes home one evening with a smell of alcohol; his father sends him away from the house, so it is Azzouz marries Zeineb even if Mannoubiya and Hallouma are jealous. Slimane married Aïcha. El Hadj dies after forgiving Slimane. Azzouz does not love his wife and mistreats her, especially after the death of her father. Slimane divorces his share of Aïcha and marries Zohra. Hallouma secretly hides her mother's pearl necklace in Zeineb's wardrobe. Mannoubiya believes that Zeineb is the person in charge therefore Azzouz, after having found the collar, sends this one to Dar Joued, a space of confinement for the disobedient women, but she flees in a zaouïa. Aziza, El Hadj's secret daughter, hyper depressed, spends her time between her father's house and a nearby zaouïa. She is the daughter of El Hadj's second secret wife, the daughter of the farmer sharecropper he bought after the death of his wife. Azzouz, even after learning that she is her sister, sends her away from her house. Aïcha, pregnant, married Azzouz. Written by: brahamdali View more details

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