Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he...
Shandawili and Ashmawy arrive from their hometown to Cairo to look for Abdel-Al, who's supposed to buy a modern farming machine. They both fall prey to Abu Hatab's gang. Feryal admires Shandawili, and decides to repent. Shandawili informs the police about Abu Hatab and his gang with the help of...
Salah moves to Cairo to work as a guard in a garage and falls in love with Nadia, who works at a video store. He is obsessed with the films she has at her store and decides to learn karate.
Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.
Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.
Prince pays the debts of the confectionery factory that the two sisters inherited, Tohma and her sister, from their father in exchange for buying half of the factory. Lotfy joins Prince’s work and Tohma admires him. The police attack Prince for drug trafficking, but Nona is imprisoned instead....
This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.
