Ahmed Azmi

Sawsan Badr plays Mohamad, a teenager teetering on the brink. On the one hand, he is a naive and sexually curious young man, intrigued by nearly every woman he meets-including his mother. On the other, he is a budding Islamic Fundamentalist, and the notion of sex is impure, particularly if it involves his mother. This is the essential personal conflict that drives the film. Which side will win the war for his mind-the liberal and exploratory side or the conservative and punitive side?

The movie relates a story of a poor family in Alexandria. After knowing that her younger son to regular kidney cleaning that costs 300 pounds a week, far beyond the family's extremely poor income, his mother, Fadla, goes to Cairo for beggaring to get the money required for treating her son. After collecting the money, Fadla returns to Alexandria only to be shocked by her son's death. (yallabina.com)

Abbas Al-Abyad is a teacher who traveled to Iraq in search of money, and when he returned, he discovered that he was not alive in the eyes of his family, after missing for years he spent in a prison there. (imdb)