剧情介绍
曾在赛特港码头辛苦操劳大半生的工人赛门（哈比•布法莱斯 Habib Boufares 饰）被解雇了，他感到既气愤又无助，跟上司的抗争也无功而返。由于事业的不顺利，他跟家人的关系也变得紧张起来，前妻、情人、儿女都对他感到失望。正在赛门走投无路的时候，情人的女儿丽姆（阿弗西娅•埃尔奇 Hafsia Herzi 饰）挺身而出。在她的鼓励帮助下，赛门准备在废弃的船上开一家餐厅，但是投资方对于他资产的质疑，险些让这桩买卖泡了汤。但是，赛门已经重新找回生活的勇气和信心。他带领家人逐渐走出阴霾，正当一家人为餐厅筹备菜品的时候，他们却遇到了前所未有的麻烦…… 本片获得第64届威尼斯电影节评审团特别奖。At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost....