A desperate escape, a cop's mercy, and a Cairo that doesn't forgive.
A girl escapes from her step mother home to avoid working in prostitution, to live with the family of a police officer who sympathizes with her.
Acting
Mervat Amin carries the whole film on her tear-streaked face.
Direction
El Alami's Cairo streets feel genuinely lived-in and dangerous.
Director
Yehia El Alami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This emerged during Sadat's 'open door' policy era, when Egyptian cinema briefly got bolder about poverty and exploitation before commercial pressures returned.
Nour El-Sherif reportedly took this smaller role to work with El Alami; he became Egypt's biggest star within five years.
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