In het huis van mijn vader

At the age of eleven, journalist and programme-maker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani came to the Netherlands with her parents. Seven years later, her father rejected her mother and married a seventeen-year-old Moroccan girl. Fatima knew one thing for sure: she would refuse to be married off like her mother and grandmother. She broke with Moroccan traditions and left her parental home. In this film, the director, unmarried and childless, wonders whether she has made the right choices. She sets her history against the background of the traditional Moroccan marriage. Such a marriage is what Naima, a Moroccan girl who was born in Holland, has opted for. On her wedding night, Naima has to bleed to prove she is still a virgin. By tradition, the in-laws wait outside the bedroom to see the bloodstained sheets.