Omnia (Randa El-Behery), 26, graduated from a commercial high school and worked at an auction house to help her father and siblings make ends meet, living with them in a small apartment in Dar El-Salam. Her father, Mostafa (Sabry Abdel Moniem), works as a taxi driver, and their living expenses exceed their income. In desperate need of money to support his children, her father was forced to agree to Omnia's marriage to currency exchange company owner Arabi El-Husseini (Mahmoud El-Gabalawy), despite him being in his fifties, divorced from a foreign wife, and having a young daughter in the custody of his ex-wife who still lives in Egypt. Omnia agreed in order to support her family, dutifully obeyed her conservative husband, and followed all his orders. Her admiration for him grew after he covered the medical treatment of her father following a road accident and paid to repair his taxi, in addition to giving her two thousand pounds as a wedding gift for her cousin Noha upon her marriage to medical school graduate Sameh (Maher Essam). This generosity caught the attention of her other cousin, Samia (Rehab El-Gamal), who attempted to seduce El-Hajj Arabi and invited him to her home, but he rebuffed her. Sameh had two medical school colleagues, and all three suffered from sexual issues that hampered their pursuit of medical careers: Sameh worked as a medical representative for a pharmaceutical company; his friend Raouf (Mohamed El-Dakkak) took a shortcut and worked as a biology teacher; and Asaad (Hassan Eid) left medicine to work in marine rescue. While the trio's unusual sexual inclinations did not amount to clinical pathology, Samia learned from her cousin Omnia that her husband Arabi favored violence and reprimands before sex. Drawing on her past experience, Samia recognized that he was a masochist who desired violence, torture, and whipping before intimacy. She approached him a second time, offering her services and catering to his preferences prior to sleeping with him in exchange for financial extortion, and he paid her generously. Omnia later showed the medications her husband was taking to her cousin Noha, who consulted her husband Sameh; he informed her that they were prescribed for depression and schizophrenia. They tried to meet his ex-wife to understand his condition, but Omnia refused out of fear of her husband. They then attempted to approach his daughter Shahd, who attended the private tutoring center where Raouf worked as a biology teacher. Fearing the fallout of confronting her husband, Omnia used the celebration of their first wedding anniversary as an opportunity to travel on vacation to a tourist resort, and Arabi agreed—especially since Samia had married and ceased contacting him. However, Samia caught Arabi off guard by calling him because she needed money, demanding that he cut his vacation short. At the resort, Arabi opposed his wife's wish to go into the sea, but eventually yielded on the condition that she swim fully clothed, which resort management refused; they only permitted her on the beach fully clothed early in the morning. When Omnia began drowning, the resort lifeguards rushed to save her, but Arabi stood in their way and tried to stop them. Valuing human life, they overpowered him and rescued her, prompting him to abandon her alone on the beach sand and leave, setting the stage for their divorce. (Bint Men Dar El-Salam)
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