In a parched village straddling North Africa and the Middle East, tradition dictates that women trek long distances to fetch water, while idle husbands lounge in the local bar. Leïla, an educated wife of the village teacher Sami, sparks a sex strike among the women, backed by the elderly Vieux Fusil, to coerce the men into shouldering the water burden. However, the men's brutal response awaits.
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A battle of the sexes erupts in a small village where women demand that their men fetch water from a distant well, refusing to grant them sexual favors until their demands are met.
