Regarded as one of the boldest films of the "liberal" 1970s, this award-winning classic is directed by the great Hussein Kamal and written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and featuring a superb cast. A color saturated melodrama and a profound analysis of seventies society and decadence.
A young rich girl gets into a fight with her father who refuses her marriage with her beloved. She decides to escape to Lebanon in order to see her love, but to get on the ship; she will have to dress up like a young man. During her journey she meets a new friend, a young man, who gets surprised to discover her secret.
Featuring a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.
