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While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenage daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. She strikes up a friendship with one of the dancers, then eventually takes the stage herself, quickly becoming the favorite of both cabaret patrons and the club's hot-headed drummer. As she gradually sheds he shapeless, matronly housedresses for the flamboyantly sequined bar-girl garb, she also begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness.

Director:

Raja Amari [1],

Starring:

Hend El Fahem [1], Monia Hichri [1], Hiam Abbass [3], Maher Kamoun [1], Faouzia Badr [1],

Screen Formats:

Full Frame 1.33:1

Subtitles:

English

Language and Sound:

Arabic Dolby Digital Stereo
French Dolby Digital Stereo

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