In a drought-stricken, patriarchal village on the border of North Africa and the Middle East, women toil to bring water from a distant fountain, while their idle husbands lounge in the local tea bar. When educated Leïla, the wife of the village teacher, Sami, launches a sex strike movement among the women, backed by the wise elder Vieux Fusil, she sparks a confrontation with the brutish men.
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Women in a small village spark a fierce uprising, refusing to show affection to their men until they agree to fetch water from a distant well.