因感知不到自身慾望，杜妮亞在學習詩歌與舞蹈的過程中不斷受挫。後來遇到人生導師巴席爾，開啟了一段透過詩歌、音樂、舞蹈探尋狂喜經驗的冒險歷程。靈感取自於埃及禁書《一千零一夜》，以愛情故事之原型，強調自我賦權及女性情慾探索，並批判父權社會中的既有框架與束縛，乃導演所創作的劇情片類型中，最具女性主義意識的作品。

Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.