Being Here

Behind the counter of his shop Simon a grocer of Jewish denomination has always been the confidant the healer and the memory of the inhabitants of Zarzis a small town in the southeast of Tunisia His shop is a meetingplace for a collection of portraits Tahar the progressive teacher Hadi the accursed painter Fatma the matchmaker Béchir the taxidriver The shop turns in succession into a political and philosophical arena where everyone expresses their own vision of the world