Regatta is engaged in several illegal activities with businessman Sari. Regatta gets a quarter of a million pounds in one operation, which will allow him to travel with his mother to Italy. Then he discovers the betrayal of Nasra, the wife of his brother Awad, by chance.
Acting
Amr Saad's quietly devastating desperation.
Direction
Mohamed Samy's gritty Cairo street authenticity.
Director
Mohamed Samy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 2010s Egyptian cinema's wave exploring working-class desperation amid economic instability, rarely distributed outside MENA.
The mother-son scenes were reportedly improvised after Elham Shaheen drew from her own family losses, giving the Italy dream its crushing weight.
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