
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.

as Meriem

as Madama Osmane

as Sid Ali

as Mrs. Costa

as Kheira

as Mimich

as Yasmine

as Kahina

as M. Stoliaroff

as Sakina

as Nasser

as Badreddine

as La rouquine (red-haired girl)

as Nasser's mother

as Le Militaire

as Angry Man

as Tante Rabia

as Shepherd

as Fadila, the bride

as Hostess

as La Rouquine

as Mistress

as Singer

as Woman in red

as Old woman at the koubba

as Angry man

as Drunk woman

as Gas station attendant

as Cinema warden

as The boy

as Bearded Man

as Military man

as Pallbearer















as M. Bouchama