Mounir is a reserved and idle night watchman. On a very lonely night, he finds a strange manner of entering the life of Latifa, his pretty neighbour with whom he is secretly in love. The unusual means will turn him into the secret witness of Latifa's agitated life and will lead him to dangerous extremes of passion.

In the Arab Muslim Tunisia, the film narrates the journey of a religious extremist who escapes from security forces and seeks shelter in the home of a prostitute who helps him deal with the situation despite their conflicting mindsets.

Film adapted from the original work of Ali Douagi "Le réverbère". In this atmosphere of current political chaos, the lamppost is a fictional film telling the story of Tunisia from independence to today and emphasizing the political heritage.

The story of the dysfunctional Tounsia family where Zakia, the matriarch of the family loves her son Selim to the point of enslaving the rest of the family. And the rest of the family just want one thing, and that is for Selim to get married and be out of their lives forever.

A new cinematic vision puts the psychological and social disintegration of family relationships under the microscope. The decline of human feelings in front of the tyranny material force and the breakdown of family ties open the door to opportunism and greed in order to acquire more money, causing the killing of human feelings and turns members of one family to enemies.