A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to shave, leave a mustache and take his niece to wife. In the meantime, Ahmed's father is dying and wants to sail to heaven. He calls to Ahmed and calls her a female name Zahra and gives her freedom so that she can go out.

Dans les annees vingt, l'histoire de la huitieme fille d'une famille marocaine dont le sexe fut cache a tous et qui fut elevee dans la tradition des males jusqu'a l'age de 21 ans sous le nom d'Ahmed.