El-Eicha (2010)

Hayet is a Tunisian woman in her forties. She is a widow and her 20 year old son left for Canada. She works as an operator in a French call center relocated to Tunis. Hayet goes to work every day where she spends her time phoning in France, since she is an operator in the French call center relocated to Tunisia. She is subjected to the incessant clubbing of the supervisor and her speech full of clichés: "Smile, a smile can be heard on the phone". At home, her daily life is just as burdensome. There, surrounded by her mother and aunts, she is condemned to listen to the teachings of caricatured sheiks on television. His only moments of respite: the calls of his son who emigrated to Canada and the nostalgic evocation of a happy past with his uncle.