When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: ‘Now you are a woman. You must care about your behaviour and movements’. I did not understand what she meant until she forbade me from riding my beloved bicycle. This film brings together Damascene women from differing social and religious backgrounds. Each woman shares her secrets and recalls incidents connected to their awakening sexual consciousness and the limitation of their existence and desires. ‘Yearning’ explores a woman’s place in a male society and how it affects her womanhood and her relationship to her own body.