Shady Fouad

Habib, a hairdresser from the late 1960s who works in his own hair salon in his apartment, is about to break with his usual routine by trying to make his wife happy. Habib usually suffers a lot, but he insists on staying alive.

Salwa, in Cairo to finish some paperwork, decides to visit her younger brother Hassan. After their late parents’ divorce, they were brought up apart, she by her mother. She spends a day with Hassan in the old family home where he still lives. Despite their initial coldness, they finally discover one another.