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.
Noura

Si Azzouz, Noura's father

Jamila, Noura's mother

Salih
Latifa

Salouha

Leila

Sheikh Mokhtar
Moncef

The matron

Mounir
Owner of the hammam
Zekhia

The Beautiful Aicha

Fatma