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After a German company builds a resort on the beach of a traditional Tunisian fishing village, all the men leave their boats for construction jobs. For a while, they are more prosperous than before, but soon the jobs end, and they have neither their old boats nor any real place in the new, modernized town. The one man who holds out and tries to remain on his boat is persecuted by the town's elders, and he ends up no better off than his peers.