Maha, the heroine of this gorgeous black-and-white psychological drama, is a film production designer and expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities — one resembling the film set she’s designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between the real and imagined becomes blurred.
“A sophisticated reinvention of the classic "women's picture,” reflecting on a diverse swath of film history while painting a distinctly contemporary portrait of fractured female identity, this blithely self-reflexive melodrama pays extensive homage to the dramatic and stylistic conventions of vintage Egyptian cinema.” -- Variety
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