Nader Seif (Ashraf Meselhy) is a former civil aviation pilot forced into retirement after his father's involvement in a public embezzlement case lands him in prison. Nader spends his time with his university classmate Vodo (Hossam Fares), who peddles narcotics and pills, lives in a working-class neighborhood, and supplies Nader with drugs to use together. While Nader indulges in numerous casual affairs with women, he shares a deep relationship with the beautiful young woman Lilian (Sandy), who urges him to marry her, prompting his promise that should he ever consider marriage, she would be his choice. However, Nader crosses paths with the gorgeous Zeina (Nermin Maher), who quickly falls into his web and reciprocates his advances, despite her lavish wealth as the daughter of prominent businessman Mohamed El-Tahan. Unexpectedly, Nader falls in love with Zeina and asks to marry her—an act that stirs the resentment of Lilian, who gave him everything upon his promise of marriage and now vows revenge. Nader formally proposes to Zeina's father, El-Tahan (Hamdy El-Sakhawy), who rejects the match because of the embezzlement conviction of Nader's imprisoned father, which would bring shame upon their future grandchildren. Zeina insists on marrying Nader customarily (urfi), and Vodo helps them tie the knot, lending them his modest flat in the popular quarter to spend their wedding night. Vodo even crashes a local wedding in the area, paying a goodwill fee to the groom to vacate the bridal dais for his friend Nader and Zeina. When Nader steps out to purchase living supplies, he returns to find no trace of Zeina, leading him to believe she was kidnapped. Vodo guides him through all the dens known for abductions, but they find no clues. Assuming she might have been taken by her father, Nader sends his friend Lilian to investigate, but she returns empty-handed. Nader's mother (Aida Reyad) had shared a romantic past with El-Tahan before her marriage to Nader's father; she appeals to El-Tahan to approve the marriage of his daughter Zeina to her son Nader so that their past tragedy is not repeated. When Nader heads to El-Tahan's villa and finds his mother there, he suspects an affair between them. As Nader attempts to assault El-Tahan, the latter preempts him with a gunshot to the shoulder. However, Vodo fires at El-Tahan, killing him instantly. At the hospital, the surgeon Samer (Mohamed El-Gohary) informs them that Nader was transferred to the morgue. Nader, who sustained only a superficial wound, had encountered the orderly from the wedding inside the operating theater, who revealed that Vodo took half the money from him, that he saw Zeina two days earlier and complained to her, and that he later saw her meeting with Vodo. Nader realizes there is a conspiracy against him involving Vodo and Zeina. He asks the hospital owner, surgeon Samer—a friend of his father—to declare him dead so he can distinguish friend from foe, and contacts his friend Lilian to coordinate their next move. Zeina had secretly overheard a conversation between her father, El-Tahan, and the corrupt lawyer Ashraf Sharif (Mounir Makram), learning that El-Tahan's first wife was infertile, leading him to adopt Zeina as a foundling, before remarrying a second wife who bore him a son and a daughter. With El-Tahan drafting his will to leave all his assets to his biological children while appeasing Zeina with a sum of money and an apartment, Zeina decided to conspire with the corrupt lawyer to alter the will in her favor in exchange for half the estate. She staged a charade with Vodo to eliminate her father, with Nader falling victim to the setup. When Vodo later blackmailed her for more money, Zeina visited his flat and shot him dead. However, Lilian succeeds in seducing the corrupt lawyer Ashraf, who takes her to his home; she plies him with drinks and dances for him until he falls into a deep sleep, allowing her to break into his desk and retrieve the original will favoring El-Tahan's biological children, along with papers proving Zeina is a foundling. Nader provides her with the urfi marriage contract and a CD recording of the wedding ceremony, and she submits all the evidence to the public prosecution. The prosecution orders the arrest of Zeina and the lawyer Ashraf, and Zeina is sentenced to death. (Sudden Escape)
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