Your thesis on addiction? Written by your dad, the kingpin. Awkward.
(Nesma), the daughter of the wealthy merchant (Hamed El-Ganzouri), is preparing a master's thesis on drug addiction, and she does not know that her father is a major drug dealer. (Zaher) helps him in his business until he becomes rich. (Nesma) falls in love with (Medhat), a medical student who is struggling in his studies because of his poverty, which makes him surrender to drug addiction. At the same time, (Zaher) admires (Nesma) and tries to marry her, but (Hamed) refuses and makes fun of him, so (Zaher) leaves his job and tries to expose him in front of his daughter and report him to the police.
Acting
Farid Shawqy's patriarchal menace—charming then terrifying.
Direction
Niazi Mostafa frames Cairo's class divide like a moral accusation.
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Egypt's 1980s economic 'opening,' the film weaponizes melodrama to criticize nouveau riche corruption that flourished under Sadat's policies.
Farid Shawqy reportedly refused to shower for three days before filming Hamed's final arrest scene to capture authentic desperation.
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