Tunis from morning to evening – due to a decisive qualification for the Soccer World Cup 2006 –  there is a frantic atmosphere and four stories tell of characters trying to resolve their personal problems.

Hamadi, an electrician who is fifty years old, must repair a defective electric network in a dilapidated building where some very strange people live. Salha, forty years old, tries by fair means or foul, to help her husband Khmis, a workman on a building site who never stops finding solutions to earn some money to survive.

Nadia, forty-six old, is a choreographer; she tries to rehearse a contemporary creation with her dancers in an atmosphere of unbearable uproar induced by a building site nearby.

Mourad, thirty years old, tries to attend to his old father in the public hospital. Maltreated from desk to desk, they don’t succeed in obtaining any attention.

The characters of these stories cross each others on their way, quite by chance, but never really meet. Salha crosses the path of Mourad in the hospital by chance, Kmis, her husband, works in the building site above the theatre where Nadia rehearses. Salha argues with Nadia, because she wants to stop the building work, which is the livelihood of her husband.

Tunisia qualifies for the World Cup and the day ends at the central police station of Tunis, where everybody finally meets: recalling their own mistakes, overtly grotesque or absurd; they all try to turn grief and tears into an irrepressible laughter they cannot control. Their day ends in a happy mess: it's Fataria!