Heartbroken and traumatized, she visits his grave in the dead of night and performs occult rituals to revive him.
Sami's ghost appears and instructs her to inject the blood of a virgin girl into the corpse to reincarnate him.
Delilah, whose eyes are famously captivating, roams around Cairo until she happens upon a destitute lottery ticket seller named Hayat, proceeding to lead her back to Sami's grave.
Some government censors and scholars at Al-Azhar University, including the latter's Grand Imam Muhammad al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri, considered the film sacrilegious.
They were overruled by the Prime Minister, Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha, who authorized screening on the grounds that the heroine was dreaming all along.