在这部奥斯曼太太的房间喜剧/剧情片中,奥斯曼太太是个女强人类型的人，然而她的强硬做法却也无法应付失业和贫困。丈夫和儿子先后躲开她去了法国，奥斯曼太太靠房屋出租补贴生活。唯一的女儿爱上自己贫穷的老师纳塞尔，奥斯曼太太不同意这桩婚姻，故意冷落纳塞尔母子。
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.
