Armand (Félix Moati, France's new heartthrob, also starring in Gaspard at the Wedding, playing this year at the SFFF), the bookish son of Iranian political refugees, and Leila (pop star Camélia Jordana, former Nouvelle Star - French American Idol - contestant, and winner of the 2018 César for Most Promising Actress for her role in Le Brio), an Arab girl from the projects, are in love. Both students at the prestigious Sciences Politiques school, they are about to leave for New York together to do an internship at the United Nations. But their plans seem to unravel when Leila's big brother, Mahmoud (William Lebghil), returns from an extended trip to Yemen as a full-blown Islamist with beard, prayer beads, and a desire to quell his sister's profane Western ways by keeping her prisoner in their apartment. How can Armand free Leila? To be able to see her and organize their secret departure, Armand must undergo a makeover: he dons a burqa and becomes Shéhérazade, Leila’s female Islamic Studies tutor. The ruse works so well that Mahmoud soon falls in love with the devout and erudite Shéhérazade...

Some Like It Veiled takes the cross-dressing concept of the Billy Wilder classic Some Like It Hot and brings it to the age of Islamic fundamentalism. The result: an extremely funny, laughing-out-loud, politically-incorrect French farce.

Writer/director Sou Abadi was born in Iran and moved to France with her family, at the age of 15, following the Iranian Revolution. Some Like It Veiled is her first narrative feature.