The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.

With no news of her companion Seif, a Palestinian fighter who disappeared in Beirut, Houria, a stewardess with an Arab airline, returns to Tunisia in search of Khélil, a war photographer who was the last to meet the missing man. But she finds herself trapped in an environment under siege, transported back several centuries to the era of Arab chivalric epics with their abducted heroines and vengeances of honor.

Hamid is a journalist, in his late thirties and he sees his celibacy with his petty bourgeois family as an escape route so as not to resemble his own. His family wants to marry him at all costs to his neighbor Rym (30) to put an end to his hesitation, and the bad tongues that do not spare hardened single people. Not daring to oppose his family's decision to marry, Hamid prefers to avoid the atmosphere of preparations.

"Silence... On reprend les cours" is a Tunisian short film that explores the challenges of the education system. It highlights the tension between students' personal struggles and the pressures of a rigid schooling environment, reflecting on themes like conformity and the emotional impact of academic life.