Plot: (from Daily News Egypt)
Hena Maysara paints a nightmarish, and completely credible, picture of Egypt. Set in an impoverished, informal housing area, the film revolves around Adel, a mechanic who struggles to support his mother and numerous nieces and nephews left behind by absent siblings.
Adel meets young Nahed (Somaya El-Khashab), who has fled abuse at the hands of her stepfather in Banha. In the short time they are together, Nahed becomes pregnant. Adel, who is already struggling to make ends meet, rejects the child and the two go their separate ways. The rest of the film follows the separate and mostly tormented lives of Nahed, Adel and their son, Ayman.
Lesbian content:
Nahed decides to leave everything behind. She hops onto a train and there she meets a woman (Ghada Abdel Razek), who's a dance instructor. The woman offers her to stay at her home in Alexandria and teach her dancing. The very first night in Nahed's new home, the woman tries to seduce her.
This is, from what I understand, the first Egyptian movie with any kind of lesbian content. I also got to say that I find the actress who plays Nahed absolutely stunning. She's such a contrast to all the anorectic-looking Hollywood actresses that we usually see.
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