The story of Challat, a legendary fundamentalist who slashes women’s buttocks with a razor blade in Tunisia, reveals what urban myths tell us about our society, culture and identity.
Tunis, 2003. A man on a mo-ped, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets. He’s on a mission: to slash the most beautiful buttocks of women strolling along the city’s sidewalks. They call him Challat; in the Tunisian dialect, the word means 'blade' and is most likely a distortion of Gillette, the famous razor blade brand with the slogan 'the best a man can get'. Eight years later, Challat has just been freed from jail, and Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania sets out to find him. She wants to know what motivated him to slash women like herself.
