Halfaouine Boy of the Terraces (1990)

Twelveyearold Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood His growing libido has gotten him banned from the womens baths where his mother took him when he was younger but hes not yet old enough to participate in grownup discussions with the men of his Tunisian village Nouras only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih the village political outcast