Hatem, a police officer, handles this neighbourhood with an iron hand exacting 'protection money from residents. He is feared and hated by all. Only Nour a school teacher and his neighbour dares stand up to him. He is infatuated with her while she in love with Cherif, a brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor.   Hatem turns their lives into a nightmare. This film is unapologetically melodramatic and is part of a long tradition of this genre in Egyptian cinema.

Egypt, 2007 / Youssef Chahine
124 mins