A young hustler's mentorship turns into something way too real. Trust me: the trip changes everything.
Fouad is a very ambitious young man who meets the experienced and much older businessman, Gaber. Fouad becomes certain that Gaber will help him fulfill his dreams and goes with him to a trip but he rediscovers many of the facts he didn't know before.
Acting
Hussein Fahmy's quietly menacing presence—he doesn't raise his voice, ever.
Cinematography
Empty highway stretches that feel increasingly claustrophobic.
Direction
Youssef Hesham Ali lets dread accumulate like dust on a dashboard.
Director
Youssef Hesham Ali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hussein Fahmy was 75 during filming, making the 50+ year age gap with Ahmed Hatem's character viscerally real.
One of the few Egyptian indie films to explicitly examine transactional mentorship and young male desperation in post-revolution Cairo.
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