No Man's Love
Al la hob
Tunisia
2000
80 Min
Color
Arabic
The story lures us into the interior world of protagonist Akim (Lotfi Abdeli), his suffering and alienation. Akim is a young scuba diver who lives together with his older, more austere, brother Issa (Féthi Heddaoui) in an isolated lighthouse on the Tunisian coastline. Tormented by his sister’s recent suicide and frustrated by Issa’s strictly regimented lifestyle, Akim leaves to accept an offer by a local Mafia boss to dive into a Roman water tank deep in the Tunisian desert for crates containing gold. —africultures