Dreaming of wealth and posh life made a teacher's wife start an affair with his friend to escape the average life,but Brought jealousy,conspiracy and plots that ended with crimes
Acting
Nabila Obeid's slow-motion moral rot is absolutely delicious.
Production
Cairo's 70s bourgeois interiors — all beige guilt and gold desperation.
Direction
Ashraf Fahmy treats domesticity like a pressure cooker about to explode.
Director
Ashraf Fahmy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures Egypt's infitah era — Sadat's economic opening created a new class of desperate social climbers and the cinema to judge them.
Nabila Obeid was only 24 here, already playing women who'd aged decades from disappointment. The wardrobe budget reportedly went entirely to her increasingly flashy caftans as Zaynab's morals declined.
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