She quit her job to teach him a lesson. The lesson? He's the problem.
Mahmoud is jealous of his wife, Souad, which makes him always take her to work and monitor her. Mahmoud's jealousy reaches the point where he suspects that there is a relationship between his wife and her manager. He asks his wife to resign from her job. She thinks a little in order to teach her husband a lesson, so she accepts and responds to his request so that she can limit his jealousy.
Acting
Nelly's simmering intelligence vs. Sarhan's sweaty paranoia.
Direction
Diaa Aldin frames Cairo offices as spaces of female autonomy.
Director
Ahmed Diaa Aldin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s Egyptian cinema's wave exploring working women's independence post-1960s reforms.
Nelly was a dancer turned actress who often played women smarter than the men around them.
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