She married his boss. Now she needs his help. Cairo's messiest love quadrangle.
Kawthar leaves her fiancé Ahmed and marries the wealthy Shamis, the owner of the factory where her father works, after a quarrel broke out between them because of her father. She wins his admiration. Ahmed completes his studies and graduates from the Faculty of Engineering. He falls in love with his colleague, the engineer Nahid, and they agree to get married, while Shamis is killed by his lover's husband. Kawthar asks the engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's factory because she faces many problems in managing it. By chance, she learns about Ahmed's relationship with Nahid.
Acting
Nour El-Sherif's wounded dignity, Sohier Ramzy's desperate eyes
Direction
Barakat's classic Egyptian melodrama mastery
Costume
1980s Cairo glamour vs. factory-worker authenticity
Director
Henry Barakat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henry Barakat was Egyptian cinema's king of women's melodramas, often adapting novels that explored female agency within conservative frameworks.
The title's religious reference (neither devil nor angel) critiques how Egyptian society policed women's moral choices—Kawthar exists in the impossible middle.
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