Red Satin
(Satin rouge)

Lilia, to everyone, is a good housewife and attentive mother. She lives in Tunis with her daughter Selma, a teenager whom she has been bringing up alone since her husband’s death. To protect her daughter who is having an affair with Chokri, a musician, she goes to the cabaret. A new world opens to her: both attractive and worrying, the world of night, of dancing and pleasure. She cannot help herself from going back and becomes a dancer in the cabaret. Through dancing, she rediscovers her desires lying under years of duty. She is torn between the housewife and mother she no longer feels to be and the “femme fatale” she has not become yet.