Flower of Oblivion

Flower of Oblivion

A film by Selma Baccar | سلمى بكار

Tribute to Abdelaziz Ben Mlouka

Synopsis

In 1940s Tunisia, Zakia, a romantic young bourgeois woman is forced into an arranged marriage with a homosexual man. After a painful childbirth, she becomes addicted to opium, sinking into despair before finding hope and love in an asylum.