The Season of Men

Maussim al-rijal, French: La saison des hommes) is a 2000 French-Tunisian drama film directed by Moufida Tlatli.

[1] The title of the film, The Season of Men, refers to the one month out of the year that the women's husbands come to the Island of Djerba.

[3] On the island Djerba, Aïcha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law, with a few other wives, while their husbands work elsewhere.

Aïcha eventually gives birth to a son and is allowed to move to Tunis with her husband.

Aïcha returns to Djerba, this time with her son Aziz and her two adult daughters.