She wanted escape. She got trapped. Now a stranger holds her last thread of hope.
A poor girl falls into the traps of a gang headed by a drug dealer, and turns into an addict. She eventually starts working as a prostitute, and meets a doctor who tries to save her from her ruined life.
Acting
Mariam Fakhr Eddine's transformation from innocence to hollow survival.
Direction
Nassour's unflinching Cairo streets, no glamour in the gutter.
Writing
The doctor isn't a savior—he's another man with an agenda.
Director
Raymond Nassour
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the earliest Egyptian films to explicitly depict drug addiction, challenging censorship under Nasser.
Stephan Rosti, playing the pusher, was actually Lebanese-Armenian—part of Egypt's vanished cosmopolitan film scene.
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