A gas pump jockey with a broken past vs. a man who owns the whole desert.
Fares is a struggling gas station worker with a sports background, but circumstances force him to confront the brutality of businessman Rashid El Suwaifi.
Acting
Ahmed Zaher's simmering desperation as a man cornered.
Direction
Raouf Abdul Aziz frames the desert as its own character.
Director
Raouf Abdul Aziz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Egyptian cinema has a rich tradition of class-conscious dramas; this fits the lineage of 1970s social realist films updated for modern economic anxiety.
Hussein Fahmy, playing Rashid, built his career on charming leads — his pivot to villainy here deliberately weaponizes audience goodwill against them.
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