علي معزة وإبراهيم

Ali Ismail (Ali Sobhy) is a young man whose beloved Nada passed away; finding a goat in her place, he believes his sweetheart's spirit was reincarnated into the animal. He falls in love with the goat, names her Nada, treats her like a human being, and endures the ridicule of neighborhood boys in El-Darb El-Ahmar, who mockingly dub him "Ali the Goat." One day, while working alongside his friend Kamata (Osama Abu El-Ata) on their microbus, they spot three young men in a Lada harassing a girl who is crying for help. They hurl a Molotov cocktail at the car and rescue the girl, who tells them her name is Nour (Nahed El Sebai) and that she works as a prostitute. Kamata shelters her in his home, learns her real name is Sabah, falls in love with her, and resolves to marry her, putting her past behind him as Sabah adopts the veil. Nousa (Salwa Mohamed Ali), Ali's mother, forces him to visit a sorcerer to cure his obsession with the goat. The sorcerer gives him three pebbles to throw into the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the River Nile to break the occult spell. At the sorcerer's place (Sabry Fawwaz), Ali meets his neighbor Ibrahim (Ahmed Magdy), who suffers from hearing mysterious, high-frequency sounds that trigger epileptic-like seizures. Ibrahim, an audio technician at a recording studio and a talented multi-instrumentalist, inherited the condition from his maternal grandfather, Shoukry El-Awwad (Mahmoud Gomaa), who had intentionally deafened himself to escape the affliction, while his mother, Wafaa, was driven to suicide during one of her episodes. In both instances, Ibrahim had been playing the oud, so he resolved never to touch the instrument again. The sorcerer gives him three pebbles as well. Ali the Goat and Ibrahim board a train for Alexandria to cast the first pebble, accompanied naturally by Nada the goat. Ibrahim tears his t-shirt, so they look for an invisible mender to fix it. They arrive at the shop of Sayed the mender (Gamil Barsoum), who fails to recognize Ibrahim; Sayed is in fact his father, who abandoned him as a child, and Ibrahim cannot bring himself to confront him because he has never forgiven him. Ali, Ibrahim, and the goat then head by microbus to Sinai to cast the second pebble into the Red Sea. During a rest stop, Nada vanishes, causing them to miss their microbus. She reappears shortly after, and when their attempts to hail a passing vehicle fail, Nada stands squarely in the middle of the road, stopping a pickup truck. They climb into the back, and along the route, they come across the very microbus they had missed, overturned with all its passengers inside, realizing that Nada saved their lives. In a Red Sea coastal village, Ibrahim suffers multiple seizures, one of them while submerged underwater. He decides to end his life by jumping into the sea, but hesitates out of cowardice and fear. Despite Ali's urging, he refuses to play the oud out of dread that his grandfather will die; however, a phone call from Kamata delivers news of the grandfather's death, prompting them to rush back for the funeral. Ali the Goat urges Ibrahim to overcome his fear by playing the oud, pointing out that his grandfather died even though he had not played. Ibrahim plays the oud and manages to record the noises that plague him during his episodes. Meanwhile, the three young rapists track down Ali and his goat as neighborhood youths chase him and snatch his cap. The three rapists abduct Nada the goat and threaten to slaughter her unless Ali pays 20,000 Egyptian pounds in restitution for their burned car. Ali rushes to Ibrahim for help. Having recorded the high-frequency sounds and amplified them, Ibrahim plays them at full blast through speakers after stuffing cotton into his ears. The assailants collapse, allowing the duo to overpower and securely bind them. Nada the goat, however, disappears. Soon after, Nousa, Kamata, Sabah, and the neighborhood youths are visited by Nada the goat in their dreams, where she entrusts Ali the Goat to their care. They search everywhere for her and eventually erect a memorial shrine in the alley, naming it "Nada's Alley." Ibrahim is freed from the tormenting noises, and he and Ali head to the Nile to cast the third pebble. (Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim)

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