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- Ali is barely making a living selling contraband gas. The young Tunisian all of a sudden finds himself in charge of his two sisters after his father's death.
- Jamil (Ramon Novarro) is a soldier in the Bedouin defence forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, who has deserted his regiment. In a remote village, he encounters an orphan asylum run by American missionaries Dr. Hilbert (Jerrold Robertshaw) and his daughter Mary (Alice Terry). The village is attacked by the Turks, and its ruler, eager to placate the invaders, intends to hand over the children for slaughter; he disguises his intents under a move to Damascus for their safety. The Bedouins arrive at the scene, and reveal that Jamil is the son of the tribal leader. With his father's revealed death, Jamil's he becomes the new leader of the tribe, which endows him with a sense of responsibility. Risking his own life, he proceeds to save the children, defeating the Turks and the local leader in the process (and winning the girl).
- On 17th December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a penniless fruit seller in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid in Southern Tunisia set himself on fire. At the time there was no reason to think this would be anything more than just another largely anonymous chapter in Tunisia's recent history. After 23 years in power, President Ben Ali had become a master of state repression, adept at controlling the message and crushing dissent but in less than a month he would be gone, starting a wave of revolutions that would fundamentally change the face of the Middle East.
- A personal portrait of a broken Tunisian-Bosnian family. Exprisoner and ex-jihadist Tawfik has been left alone to take care of his three teenage daughters.