A family trades poverty for a penthouse—but the fine print might cost them everything.
Season 1 • Episode 30
LatestThe family of Mr. (Asfoor), who works in one of the contracting companies (Hassan Abedin), suffers from poor living conditions in the house in which they live, and is trying to find a new apartment that accommodates all of them, and the director of the company in which Mr. (Asfoor) agrees to grant him a new apartment with him and his family in one of the buildings he built, provided that he bears legal responsibility for the architecture, especially after a problem occurred.
Acting
Hassan Abdeen's everyman desperation hits uncomfortably close
Production
Captures 1980s Egyptian urban housing crisis with documentary grit
Creator
Faisal Nada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series aired during Egypt's Infitah era, when construction booms displaced working-class families and normalized exploitative housing contracts.
Director Faisal Nada specialized in melodramas that weaponized bureaucratic paperwork as plot engines—this is his most relentless example.
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