Mahmoud Abu Jalila

An ill-fated flight ends in the Western Desert where it crash-fives into quicksand as the passengers try to control their temper. The movie provides archetypes as they start reflecting on their lives in crisis, some of them being hopeless, and some of them being hopeless romantics.

Samir and Wafaa get married after a long engagement. When Wafaa's sister Saedya tries to cause trouble in their marriage, both Wafaa and Samir try to get rid of her.

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.