Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.

A child who loves the cinema struggles with a fanatic dad who finds everything (including cinema) a sin, and a mother who is sexually repressed.