Depicts the cultural seduction of the adolescent anti-hero by means of the penetration of his psyche by Western sexual imagery and the more general impact of tourism on his social economic environment.
Slim Ben Fredj is a young man selling postcards to tourists in Kairouan. Frustrated and suffering in his wretched and miserable home, he spends most of his time wandering near hotels that are inaccessible to him and gazing at gorgeous women he will never be able to have.—brahamdali