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Aisha, a 26-year-old Sudanese woman, lives in Ain-Shams, a neighborhood in Cairo with a large African migrant community. The authorities’ indifference to the violent tensions between Egyptians and various African nationalities, has allowed different gangs to seize control of the neighborhood. The situation quickly turns sour after one of them offers Aisha security in exchange for a favor.
A parody of James Cameron's Titanic
Follows the lives of Yemeni immigrants and expatriates in Egypt after the outbreak of war in Yemen and the closure of airports through the story of Waheba, an expatriate in Egypt who reunites the Yemenis there and helps them with her son Sami and her daughter Sara.
In Wadi Maysan, a vital trade route between the Hijaz and Yemen, tribes rule under a powerful sheikh who controls water and commerce. When a caravan is brutally looted, and a young man, a descendant of the ruling tribe, is accused, a struggle for leadership erupts. A rival tribe revives an old vendetta, while a mysterious man with a secret from the sheikh’s past threatens his reign.
