Moroccan film about a true story tackles the subject of sexual abuse and abortion through a girl named Nora. the latter was violated, and she died during an abortion attempt, then her body was dumped at the beach. A police search begins to decipher the body's mystery.

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.