The Miser and I
1991 · 1 season · 15 eps · ★ 6.3 · Comedy, Drama
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The story of Awad, the stingy trader who collects money while his family lives in deprivation, which forces his children to work to escape their father's stinginess. The daughter marries a rich older man, and her two brothers try to achieve their dreams away from their father.
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