Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive for money rules. Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a rich businessman and his American wife, meets Hanane (Hanane Turk), a journalist of modest means at the airport on his return from his studies in the US. She is part of a campaign against a wealthy elite, which has thrived on plundering its own people. They fall in love and get married. Corruption is everywhere in the country and American interests are taking over the lucrative tourist trade. Adam's rich parents and their friends in the government are at the heart of this corrupt system. Adam's mother, Margaret (Nabila Ebeid), nourishes a strange affection for her son. She is possessive to the point of violence and is ready to get rid of Hanane, whom she considers her rival. Adam turns against the global economy of which his parents are the perfect ...

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拉姆是古代一个沙漠部落头领的儿子，他目睹当地生存环境的艰苦和气候的恶劣以及随之产生的部落内人们的残酷，遂决心到埃及学习先进的农业耕作知识以拯救部落。他不远千里，历经磨难，忍辱负重，在埃及从最低劣的奴隶做起，不为磨难所屈，不为色利所诱，潜心钻研，终学得真知而返回家乡，拯救了自己的部落。

耶希亚被指控杀害自己的妹妹，于是他决心寻求复仇，揭开凶手的真面目。

影片讲述了一个跨越半个世纪的爱情故事。一个来自埃及的留学生耶亚和金吉尔在美国相爱了。可是世事无常，命运无情地让这对痴心的恋人天隔一方，50年过去了耶亚和金吉尔都还深爱着对方，而且让耶亚惊喜的是，他竟然在很多年前已经和金吉尔有了一个孩子。然而出生在美国的儿子无法接受自己的父亲是个阿拉伯人这个现实……