A man's dignity gets auctioned off to the highest bidder in 80s Cairo's underbelly.
The film revolves around social paradoxes in terms of betrayal, greed and the pursuit of power, which leads to a series of exciting events surrounding Hussein Abdel Moneim Al-Saftawy, who becomes a party to the conflict between the police and one of the smuggling gangs.
Acting
Hesham Selim simmers with desperate ambition throughout.
Direction
Hamouda captures Cairo's shadows like a fever dream.
Writing
Dialogue cuts like broken glass—sharp and personal.
Director
Sherif Hamouda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El-Saflah dropped during Egypt's Infitah era, when economic liberalization created new criminal underclasses and cinematic fascination with moral decay.
Raghda's role was originally written for a male actor; her casting forced rewrites that made the betrayal subplot more intimate and devastating.
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