The Season Of Men is set on the island of Djerba, where women wait eleven months of the year for their trader husbands to return from the mainland. The annual “season of men,” in which the males return and try desperately to conceive children with these alienated, abandoned wives, becomes a source of increasing tension and sexual dysfunction. It is a story of loneliness, frustration, and desperation on an island that is a virtual prison for the women. Tlatli’s film shows that the absence of men does not give the women any respite from oppression. As in her debut, Tlatli conveys all of this through minute glances and gestures, effortlessly cutting across past and present, cause and effect.