The rich widow Hanan frequently visits the shop where Lubna works, which plans with her lover Atef to blackmail Hanan. Hanan gives them a room attached to the villa garden to get married. Atef succeeds in seducing Hanan into his love, Lubna rebels against them, so Atef claims to kill her and hides her body in a deserted place, a telephone woman threatens her to report the police about the crime to blackmail her.
Acting
Safia ElEmary's widow—predator and prey in one
Direction
Barakat squeezes maximum tension from garden shadows
Costume
1980s Cairo glamour rotting from within
Director
Henry Barakat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barakat was Egypt's master of women's melodrama; this late-career thriller lets his heroines be vicious, not just victimized.
The garden room—given as wedding gift, used as love nest, becomes burial ground. Barakat's spatial storytelling at its most cruel.
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