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A group of men attack two young shepherds. Achraf, 14, is obliged to bring the head of his cousin Nizar to the family as a macabre message.

"Burning Hope" is at once the story of an unlikely friendship and the portrait of a fragile country haunted by so many ghosts. Between investigation and intimate story, the movie tells the crossed destinies of two young women and a teenager in a post-revolution Tunisia, swinging between hopes and disillusionment.

Following the business trip of his wife, Imed, young father in his 35, finds himself alone for the first time having to take care of his 5-year old son Hedi for a few days. It's his wife who has usually taken care of the daily needs of the child. Imed, as a good Arab father, after a short moment of resistance, seems to appreciate the opportunity of a privileged time with his son, "between men." But this simple and banal interlude in the life of a family reveals in Imed a dark side tied to a heavy secret.

While driving along a road in the Tunisian desert in an old battered van on their way to market to sell their sheep, an old man and his grand-son are stopped by two policemen. In order to be allowed to leave, they have to accept a strange and unusual deal.

Hedi is a taxi driver in Tunis. One evening he drives to the hospital a pregnant young woman who is going into labor. This brief encounter will bring a series of random, tragic and unexpected events, leading to a life-changing experience for both of them.

Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, a man is kidnapped, tortured and killed, then vanishes without ever being found. Thirty years later, he comes back to talk to us.

The whole nation stands behind The Eagles of Carthage in the 2004 Africa Cup Final against Morocco. Fifteen years after the match, Tunisians still recall the emotion of a day that deeply affected the History of the country.

Aymen arrives in Marseille after crossed the Mediterranean. He found his sister that he has not seen since twenty years.

85 years after the publication of Our Woman in the Shari'a and the society of the famous Tunisian reformer Tahar Haddad, Anissa Daoud raises the question of the political participation of women in the aftermath of the Revolution, notably by following the actions of the LET ( League of Tunisian Electricians), feminist association founded in April 2011. Whether magistrate and former candidate for the presidency of the republic (Kalthoum Kennou) or anonymous activists, what assessment can these women make of their participation in the socio-political life of post-revolutionary Tunisia?

Sonia doesn't believe in any kind of commitment anymore, neither in love nor in politics. She wanders between Paris and Tunis, coming to a bitter conclusion on the Tunisia post-revolution.