In the 1970s, twelve-year-old Noura lived in Halfaouine, a working-class district of Tunis. One day, he is no longer allowed to accompany his mother to the hammam, where boys are admitted until the down pushes them to their chins. Boughedir paints a joyful picture of Tunisian life and illustrates the subtle and complex relationships between men and women in Tunisia. This film is a masterstroke by Boughedir, who knew how to give us, without mawkishness or "folklore", the image of a world, puritan and bawdy at the same time, with its customs, its babblings, its distinct male and female "societies", while giving a perfect moment, suspended between two states, that of childhood and that of maturity, leaving one without really being in the other Noura, twelve years old, behind the delicate features of childhood is presented as a clandestine cub in a moist and sensual sheepfold. Noura fills his eyes with curves and curves, which he hastens to describe to his friends who are too "old" to still have access to paradise...