[1] According to an Arabic movie database, the film revolves around a young Egyptian man, Ali Bassem Samra with acting ambitions but lives in a poor neighborhood.
The only escape for his creative instincts, besides nightly conversations with a poster of Robert De Niro’s Raging Bull, is occasional bottom-of-the-line stage melodramas.
This quarter, Rod al-Faraj, is emblematic of a number of inner city neighborhoods in Cairo, which have been erased, and isolated their residents to desert suburbs by an Egyptian government, wanting to restore its historic monuments and attract tourists.
Unable to find legal work, he has fallen in with a fellow countryman who pays him to “throw” fights in crooked boxing matches.
After his business is forcibly absorbed by French gangsters, Ali's partner betrays him and flees to Egypt, leaving him penniless and without an identity.