The photo-women are gathered in front of the Interior Ministry of Tunisia and at the Italian embassy in Tunis. They show pictures of their children, husbands, brothers. They have all disappeared trying to emigrate by sea to Europe, during the Arab Spring period. Among these women is Om El Khir Ouirtatani. The film follows her, a mother of three children and representative of the La Terre Pour Tous association, through moments of public and private life, fighting to keep the family alive and find the truth about what happened to her husband.

The movie competes for the Coop Award.

Ester Sparatore

She was born in Palermo in 1973. She studied architecture and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. Since 1998 she has been working as a video artist, presenting her works in numerous exhibitions in Italy and winning the art show Il Genio di Palermo for two years. From 1999 to 2007 she worked at the audiovisual production company CLCT Broadcasting in Palermo, dealing with directing, photography and editing of several documentaries for museum and cultural institutions. In 2011 she directed Palazzo delle Aquile with Stefano Savona and Alessia Porto, selected by the Acid at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of several international awards, including the Grand Prix of Cinéma du Réel. She is currently completing the documentary on Lampedusa produced by the French companies Ferris & Brockman and Atopic films.