Keswa

Synopsis

Nozha, a Tunisian young woman, left her country and got married against her family's will. Now, Nozha is divorced. She returned to her country with a sense of failure and deep disarray. Reconciled with her family, she accepts to wear the very heavy traditional "KESWA" embroidered with silver thread for her brother's wedding which is to take place that very evening. The "serwal" of her keswa gets caught in a thorn bush and little by little, the silver thread starts undoing. The tear in the serwal gets bigger and bigger, and the keswa gets lighter and lighter. Will Nozha, wrapped up with the night and light, find again her "lost thread" through this breach of tradition?