Fidé, Sana, Melek, Meriem and other women work as fig pickers. In the shade of the trees, they talk about love and "Mektoub", destiny. The sensitive film realistically describes the power of women and a society in transition.
These are amateur actresses who, with astonishing naturalness and accuracy, each represent a part of Tunisian society and tell of the upheaval in which values and traditions collide and patriarchy weighs heavily on everything. Under the Fig Trees stands for the kind of cinema in which one can immerse oneself completely and which is characterised by gestures and words.