Alaa Aqrabawi

More Sugar is an intimate and emotionally charged drama that follows Malak, a woman in her mid-thirties, as she navigates the suffocating grip of depression and anxiety. Living alone in a small apartment, Malak struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy while secretly battling thoughts of suicide. Her life takes a turn when her brother, Hamouda, unexpectedly visits her one evening, unaware of the turmoil she is hiding.

On her final day with Omar, the foster child she has raised with love for six years, Nawal faces a heartbreaking truth: she must tell him he is adopted, and that his biological mother has come to take him back. As time slips away, she struggles to say what words cannot hold, offering him not only the truth, but a memory of love strong enough to endure even separation.