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Twenty-five year old Alia (Ghalia Lacroix) is fed up with singing at marriages to entertain the guests.
The news of the death of Prince Sid'Ali, an ex-Bey, brutally returns Alia back to her past. At the funeral, she revisits the Palace where she spent her childhood and adolescence. Her mother was a servant in the Palace and her father unknown.
The dilapidated state of the Palace distresses Alia. While she wanders through the deserted corridors, images - both fascinating and cruel - come back to mind from her childhood.
She brings to the surface memories that she thought were buried with her mother, brave and beautiful Khedija (Amel Hedhili), who fought in relentless silence to protect her daughter from the Princes' covetous glances, so that Alia would definitely escape the destiny that she had to suffer.

Moufida Tlatli studied film at I.D.H.E.C. (Paris) in 1968. She worked as a script-girl and later as a production manager at O.R.T.F. (Paris) until 1972, she then worked as editor on several short and feature films in Tunisia and abroad. She was awarded the prize for best editor at the Festivals of Carthage and Ouagadougou for Aziza by A.Ben Ammar, Fertile Memory by M.Khelifi, Shadow of the Earth by T.Louchichi and La fête du cinéma by F.Boughedir. The Silences of the Palace is her first feature film.