She wanted love on her own terms. 1970s Cairo wasn't ready.
Noura is a free girl, who gets to know Dr. Mounir and connects the love between them, but he is surprised by her thoughts, as she allows herself to have sex with the one she loves without marriage, and all of her sister Laila's attempts to straighten out and discourage her from what she does, Noura asks Munir to expedite his marriage to her, but he refuses, because he is afraid From her thoughts and marry another, so that Nora later meets the well-known writer Ezzat, to change her life.
Acting
Mervat Amin burns up the screen with quiet defiance.
Writing
Dialogue that still sparks arguments about 'respectability'.
Production
Cairo's 70s glamour vs its moral contradictions.
Director
Saad Arafa
Mervat Amin
نورا أحمد
Hussein Fahmy
د. منير فتحي
Rushdy Abaza
عزت - كاتب روايات
Saeed Saleh
سليمان
Nagwa Fouad
ميرفت - زوجة عادل
Eman
سوزى - صديقة نورا
Mohsena Tawfiq
ليلى احمد - اخت نورا
Galal Issa
زوج نورا
Mohamed El-Sabaa
احمد - زوج ليلى احمد
Sabri Abdel Aziz
عادل - زوج ميرفت
Salama Elias
أحمد - والد نورا
Hamdy Youssef
حسين بيه
Mohamed Abdel Magid
والد سليمان
Ola Rami
أمينه احمد - بنت ليلى
Aleya Abdel Moneim
أم نورا
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Sadat's 'open door' policy, the film mirrored real debates about Westernization and 'degenerate' modern women in Egyptian media.
Rushdy Abaza reportedly improvised several of Ezzat's most cynical lines; the censors tried to cut Noura's monologue about desire but Arafa fought them.
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