
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.

Meriem

Madama Osmane

Sid Ali

Mrs. Costa

Kheira

Mimich
Yasmine
Kahina
M. Stoliaroff
Sakina

Nasser

Badreddine

La rouquine (red-haired girl)

Nasser's mother

Le Militaire

Angry Man
Tante Rabia
Shepherd

Fadila, the bride
Hostess

La Rouquine
Mistress
Singer
Woman in red
Old woman at the koubba

Angry man
Drunk woman

Gas station attendant
Cinema warden
The boy
Bearded Man

Military man
Pallbearer


M. Bouchama