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Yehia Shoukry (Nour El-Sherif) is an elderly man living in Alexandria with his daughter Amira (Dorra Zarrouk) and his son Mourad (Abed Anani), who resents him and his late mother after joining Islamist groups and discovering that his mother was originally Christian. Yehia has also recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which causes him embarrassing moments as he forgets his home address and fails to recognize his children, alongside his struggle with alcohol consumption. Matters escalate to Mourad physically assaulting his father. Yehia treasures a photograph of a woman he cannot remember, yet feels deeply that he loved her. Determined to find her, he sets out for Cairo in his dilapidated car despite his children's objections, only for the car to break down on the desert road. Meanwhile, Wael (Karim Kassem) has been in love with Salma (Ayten Amer) for three years, but their hopes of sharing a home anytime soon are slim. Wael borrows the key to the bachelor pad of his friend Tarek (Mahmoud Samy), and Salma agrees to join him. Alone in the apartment, Wael tries to make love to Salma, but she hesitates and ultimately refuses, fearful of the consequences of losing her virginity in a society where a woman's misstep is fatal. Salma finds herself torn between staying in the apartment while dreading an intrusion by strangers, and walking away from a dead-end romance. Elsewhere, Hazem (Sherif Ramzy) is a young drug dealer who sells hashish to wealthy clients, delivering the contraband right to their doorsteps by car. Traveling to Alexandria to make a delivery to Rasha (Kinda Alloush), the two share a mutual attraction, but Hazem is preoccupied with business after being ordered to head to the North Coast. Encountering a police checkpoint along the way, he dumps a bag of drugs containing all his earnings; his supplier demands payment for the lost shipment and begins hunting him down. Sameh Kamal (Samir Sabri) is a retired actor who now lives alone in a luxury apartment with his servant Fawzy (Hamdi El-Ramli), his only son having emigrated abroad, leaving Sameh to dwell on memories of the past. Layla Samahi (Mervat Amin), also a retired actress, lives with her daughter Salma, Wael's girlfriend. Hoping to avoid spending her remaining years alone, Layla decides to marry, but her suitor presents her with a religious fatwa stating that an on-screen marriage in a film constitutes a binding legal marriage. Having wed Sameh Kamal on screen in the film 'The Cursed Woman,' she must obtain an official Islamic divorce from him first. She tracks him down, catching him off guard at his home at an awkward moment while he is hosting young journalist Basma (Samar El-Nagely), and demands a formal divorce before an authorized cleric, which he refuses because no actual marriage contract exists. On the highway, Hazem picks up Yehia and drives him to Cairo. When Amira discovers her father's whereabouts, Yehia pretends not to recognize her to avoid being dragged back to Alexandria so he can continue his search for the woman in the photo. Hazem tells him the picture looks like the actress Layla. Upon arriving in Cairo, Hazem notices his suppliers trailing his car and asks Yehia to deliver the hashish to Sameh Kamal and wait for him there. Soon after, the suppliers brutally beat Hazem and seize his car. Meanwhile, Yehia arrives at Sameh's apartment to find that the woman in the photograph—his long-lost love—is sitting right there; their memories instantly rekindle. At the same time, Salma leaves the apartment with Wael, holding on to hope for relief in the near future. (Cairo Time)

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