Q:Build a movie plot around this: What does Alia choose upon reaching adulthood? her own destiny
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Undereducated but wised up by time, Khedija (Amel Hedhili) is a typical strong woman who strives to live the life's burden.This beautiful housemaid (good at belly dancing and comes from some unclear lineage--something not uncommon among the poors who live in a culture in which people are commonly traded) has a daughter, Alia (Hend Sabri/Ghalia Lacroix).She realizes that her irressistable appeal to men, besides giving her some welfare and security insurance, one too many times tends to invite troubles--something she always wishes will never happen to Alia.With the setting of 1950's Tunisia (when the French's backed-up monarch almost comes to an end), the story take us to see the world from Alia's eyes: the childhood with all its joys and unprejudiced free spirit, adolescence with its sensitivities and curiousities, up to when she reaches adulthood--the time when life dares her to choose her own destiny.