When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
Claire, a school teacher with a camera is on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Man-hee, recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director.
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
The film is adapted from Tawfiq al-Hakim's short philosophical story, “I am Death " about Khaled, a young man who suffers from an existential crisis, commits suicide by drowning. A girl called Hayat tries to save him, and he finds himself in an interrogation about the reasons.
