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Upon graduating from the Police Academy, Abbas El-Otta (Mahmoud Hemeida) left his popular alleyway behind, severing ties with its residents and forgetting his childhood friends and relatives. He married Mervat (Suzan Negm), the daughter of a wealthy family, and steadily climbed the career ladder until he reached the post of Minister of Interior, strictly forbidding his kin from ever mentioning their relation to him. This applied especially to his cousin and former sweetheart, Altaf Hassanein El-Otta (Sawsan Badr), whose beauty had once made her the desire of all the alley's young men. She had married Abdel Rabbo El-Far and given birth to her son Hamada; after her husband died, she spent her life remarrying as soon as each waiting period ended, continuously until Hamada (Mohamed Farrag) grew up and earned a vocational diploma. Abbas El-Otta pulled strings to secure him a job at Al-Ahram Institution, where chairman Saeed (Lotfy Labib) assigned him to the custodial staff. Hamada grew into a painfully shy young man burdened by everyone's obsession with his mother and their constant bids to marry her—particularly Refaie the cafe worker (Diaa El-Merghany), Bakr El-Sherbini (Mahmoud Abdel Ghaffar), and clerk Ali El-Damiati (Mohamed Abo El-Wafa), all of whom were Abbas El-Otta's childhood companions. Hamada secretly loved his colleague Rania (Basma Yasser) but was too timid to confess his feelings. Meanwhile, Abbas El-Otta and his wife Mervat were preparing to marry off their spoiled only daughter the following day. Finding themselves in need of someone to ululate at the celebration, Mervat summoned Altaf, known for her expertise. Altaf arrived, ululated, danced, and collapsed dead of heart failure. Her death sparked a dilemma: how could they hold a lavish wedding with the corpse of the minister's cousin inside the house? The minister phoned Saeed, asking him to track down her son whose name he had forgotten. Saeed managed to locate Hamada, whom the minister informed of his mother's death. Learning of the kinship between the deceased and the minister, Saeed was left bewildered: should he send floral arrangements to the wedding announced for the next day, or publish an obituary for the bereavement? Fearing political accountability, he consulted state officials by phone, prompting the news of the minister's tragedy to spread publicly. Meanwhile, El-Otta secretly transported the body back to her home in an ambulance, ordering Hamada not to hold the burial until after the wedding. However, following condolence calls from both the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic, the wedding was effectively called off, turning the burial and funeral into an unavoidable official obligation. El-Otta was forced to retrieve the body against the will of the neighborhood residents, who were gearing up for burial and funeral rites, and who urged Hamada to reclaim his mother's remains. When Hamada failed to retrieve her corpse from the hospital morgue, he turned to an unlicensed neighborhood lawyer, Esmat (Reem Hegab), daughter of Ali El-Damiati, who sought to file a police report against the Minister of Interior. Facing this deadlock, the minister accepted his wife's proposal to acquire an unclaimed body to bury in front of dignitaries, while handing Altaf's true body back to Hamada, on the condition that Hamada attend the official burial and receive condolences alongside the minister. Hamada soon discovered that the unclaimed corpse they had secured was actually the mother of Wezza, a local addict and thug. Hamada positioned Wezza beside the minister to receive condolences and take photos with him, resulting in a resounding public scandal. (Cat and Mouse)

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