City of Light, 1993. Selma, 17, populate in a businessperson and secular Berber household. When she meet and is strongly attract to Julien, a dashing immature man, she recognize for the first clip the heavy rule of her patriarchal household and how they impact her familiarity. As Islamism take over her state of beginning and her household crumbles, Selma detect the powerfulness of her own desire. She must defy and battle. Through the strength of her people, she get down walk down the way of what it mean to go a free adult female.