Your husband dies, you find his secret wife, then marry your employee who falls for a widow. Cairo chaos ensues.
A woman who is the owner of a group of shops discovers, after the death of her husband, that he was married to another woman. She decides to marry one of her employees, who tries to make her happy with all sincerity. But he meets a beautiful young widow, which leads into trouble.
Acting
Saeed Saleh's sincere employee schtick vs. Berlanty's domineering widow energy.
Production
Peak 1988 Cairo shop-owner aesthetic — gold jewelry, big hair, bigger drama.
Director
Hassan Hafez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hassan Hafez directed dozens of these working-class melodramas; this was peak Saeed Saleh before he pivoted to pure comedy.
The 'secret second wife' reveal was scandalous cinema shorthand for 1980s Egyptian anxiety about changing marriage norms.
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