Acting
Set in a middle-class Cairo apartment building, The Seventh Neighbour weaves together the private lives of residents who project happiness and stability to the world while quietly battling their own secrets, struggles and conflicts behind closed doors. With interconnected storylines spanning love, marriage, family pressure and social tension, it's a warm, relatable ensemble drama about the hidden lives of ordinary people living side by side.
The events of the series revolve in a dramatic framework around the antiquities trade, its relationship with the mafia, and everything related to the world of this trade through the story of Hassan (Amr Saad), an employee of the Antiquities Authority, after discovering the smuggling and counterfeiting of ancient manuscripts.
After discovering their ailing elderly father has 28 million in his bank account, seven siblings conspire to end his life, but the story takes a mysterious turn when his body vanishes from his room following the crime.
Three different personalities, the first tries to pursue his career in singing, the second is a dreamy Christian woman who falls in love with a Muslim youth, while the third works in the field of sports training.
Hiyam, a young factory worker, lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, along with her co-workers. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor. Believing that love can transcend their class differences, Hiyam relentlessly pursues a dream of the pair being together. However, when a pregnancy test is discovered in the factory premises, her immediate family and close friends accuse her of sinning. Hiyam decides not to defend herself and pays an enormous price in a society that fails to accept her.
Laila is distressed by her mother's control over her life. When a family member dies, she travels with her mother to Alexandria to attend the funeral, then many comical situations occur during the presence of the large extended family, which consists of four aunts, their children, and their grandchildren.
