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The daughter of a local authority is in love with a poor minaret crier and resists a rich man from Tunisia.
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Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.