A shipwreck leaves a young French woman stranded on the coast of Tunisia, where she is taken in by a group of Bedouins. She lives with them for a while until she is abducted by bandits and eventually rescued by a French aviator.

Only fragments of the film have been preserved, but publications from that time provide information about the content.

With Haydée Samama Chikli

Haydée Samama Chikli (1906–1998) was born in Tunis. Aged 16, she produced the first indigenous Arab and African film, Zohra, together with her father Albert Samama Chikly. She worked on two more films before getting married in Algeria in 1929 and taking the family name Tamzali. She worked as a writer and journalist and was secretary general of the Red Cross and president of the League Against Cancer. Haydée Tamzali wrote two books: La Cuisine en Afrique du Nord (1986) and the autobiographical anthology Images retrouvées (1992). In 1996, she had a role in Ferid Boughedir’s Berlinale winner Un été à La Goulette.

Films with Haydée Samama Chikli
The Arab 1924 | La Récolte de l’olive en Tunisie 1922 | Ain el Ghezal 1922