Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter and film producer born on 3 July, 1942 in Fes, Morocco. He is one of the great Moroccan filmmakers and has a special mark in the Moroccan cinema community and is highly regarded.
Lhadj Benmoussa, a rich jeweler, is married to several wives and appear to be a good manager of the three concubines, except when Houda, his third wife, who is young and gracious, is repudiated for the third time.
A young man drives a truck loaded with dates from southern Morocco into Tangiers.
In order to honour his deceased brother's will and assert his guardianship rights, Mokhtar - a sexagenarian, single, misogynistic notary and heir like several other relatives - is determined to carry out the deceased's last wishes...