When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.
Hend Sabry is a Tunisian actress. She was born in Kebili province in Tunisia and holds a degree in Intellectual Property. She is known for her work in Egyptian cinema and television and resides in Cairo. Sabry first appeared in the films The Silences of the Palace (1994) and The Season of Men (2000) by director Moufida Tlatli. She gained the attention of Egyptian director Inas El-Degheidy who would eventually cast her as the lead in the controversial film Journals of a Teenager in 2001. Among her most notable roles were those in films like Daoud Abdel Sayed's A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief (2001), Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building (2006) and Ibrahim El-Abyad (2009), and the television series “Ayza Atgawez” (I Want to Get Married).