After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies.
as Leila
as Raoul
as Lucien Rameau
as Monique
as Aïcha
as Bourdelle