Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her...
Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura, a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the...
Omar is trying to reclaim the inheritance of his father from his uncle. He uses his colleague Rauof, who turns out to be a crook and then flees to Lebanon and Omar goes to jail. Lina the Lebanese girl falls in love with Raouf, and they agree to marry, but he escapes to Cairo.
In Post-War Lebanon, after Taif Accord in 1989, and the Syrians withdrawal from Lebanon,seemingly disconnected at first, the stories reveal an interconnection, particularly with an Egyptian director seeking societal freedom in Beirut falls victim to its repression.
