A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?
Acting
Faten Hamama's eyes do ALL the heavy lifting.
Direction
Barakat turns soap opera material into genuine tragedy.
Director
Henry Barakat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Egypt's 'open door' economic policy, the film eerily predicts how capitalism would strain traditional family structures. Faten Hamama was already a superstar, and this cemented her as the face of dignified suffering.
The jewelry Mona gives Adel? Real diamonds from Hamama's own collection. She insisted on authenticity for the scene's emotional weight, then quietly donated them to the production.
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