The battle of sexes deals with the relationship between men and women, showing the socio-cultural and economic factors concerning the transmission of HIV. The sub context talks about the eternal misunderstanding between the two sexes which badly communicates and rejects the cause of the spreading of the disease.

"Tied Hands" tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son.

Like in Hans Christian Anderson's legend "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a child is looking for a rose to save his mother the queen on her death bed, so in "TIED HANDS" in a reversal of roles a mother goes out on a desperate search for a little Marijuana, to ease her son's pain.

In her, turbulent, journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.

This may well be the first time that a group of West African men and women speak openly about a once-taboo subject that has turned into a daily and deadly threat: AIDS. Relationships, dealing with the use of condoms, fears of getting tested for HIV/AIDS, are discussed candidly, making this film an indispensable awareness-raising tool .

A woman invites a man she is dating for the first time to have one last drink at her place.