Yasmine Khlat

Aziza, who is usually forced to stay at home, must accompany her elderly uncle Bechir who cannot accustom himself to riding into the city on a bus to do his errands alone. Aziza's swaggering cousin makes the logical move and acquires a car, beginning his extension into an entrepreneurial life he cannot sustain, and which will eventually force him back within the flimsy new walls. Only Aziza copes, gradually, with the new space... (cinemacaravan.com)

In the film that marks the emergence of auteur cinema in Syria, a young widow and her children are forced to move to Damascus, where the boys come of age against the backdrop of the military coups that punctuated the 1950s (TheStreamable.com).