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This Egyptian film, shot in Alexandria, presents the benefits of
exchanging the shackles of a conventional, successful life, for
the spiritual freedom of poverty. Hussein, a meek accountant, is
tired of his boring, repetitious life. After he suffers a
succession of unearned degradations, he decides to chuck it all
and literally run away from home. Stripped of all worldly goods
and values, Hussein discovers the generosity of the common man.
When four prostitutes are about to go to jail, Hussein...more