The Trap

Soliman is an idealistic young lawyer who is in love with Bassima. As he fights a bitter battle with his rivals, victory slips away from him as he hesitates to finish some unfinished business, causing him to lose both the battle and his sweetheart.

An anthology film that features three stories about the suffering of the people of the Syrian countryside in the time of feudalism; the first is about a poor peasant who falls victim to an agent of feudalism, the second is about a little girl, who has to get medicine for her feverish mother. As for the third story, it depicts the tools of feudalism in wresting the land from the peasants.