A Tale of Love and Desire (Palace Films Collection) DVD

Ahmed (Sami Outalbali) is a talented 18-year-old Algerian from the outer Parisian suburbs, who has received a grant to study literature at the prestigious Sorbonne. Though the same city, it's a disorientingly-foreign world for the conservative Ahmed and he is rattled by the discovery of a rich canon of ancient, erotic Arabic texts in his new surroundings, works in which he recognises a reflection of his own secret yearnings.

Ahmed has been struck by the beautiful Farah (Zbeida Belhajamor), a vibrant Tunisian student, who exudes curiosity and has fully embraced the freedoms and opportunity of studying in a new city. Ahmed is both overwhelmed with desire and afraid to surrender to his impulses...