Au Caire, quelques semaines avant la révolution de 2011, un inspecteur est chargé d'enquêter sur le meurtre d'une chanteuse. Il réalise rapidement que les coupables pourraient être liés au cercle rapproché du Président.
Le film traite de la Révolution égyptienne de 2011 et jusque la revolution de 30 juin contre Mohamed Morsi et notamment des manifestations s’étant déroulées Place Tahrir.
Le Caire, été 2013, deux ans après la révolution égyptienne. Au lendemain de la destitution du président islamiste Morsi, un jour de violentes émeutes, des dizaines de manifestants aux convictions politiques et religieuses divergentes sont embarqués dans un fourgon de police. Sauront-ils surmonter leurs différences pour s'en sortir ?
The film deals with some issues of concern to the Egyptian citizen and passes the events in the comic. It provides a personal representative Mohamed Saad (Tika) who lives in the popular and has a shop selling toys and with the Egyptian revolution that tries to aggregate the region's youth to the composition of the popular committee in an attempt to deal with thugs.
From January 25 to May 27, 2011, the film tracks four months of the Egyptian revolution as seen through the director's eyes. January 25 is the beginning, but May 27 is not the end - because the revolution continues.
Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
Reflecting on his Father's experiences during the 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots - Documentarian, Nadim Fetaih discovers his own story in the Egyptian 2011 Revolution and the endless unrest that grips the cradle of civilization.
What if you witness a revolution but things get worse? What if your homeland is in ruins with no signs of reconstruction? How do you cope? You can either get angry, sick, and depressed or just escape into memories of a golden but lost past. Four people, two revolutions, and the story of a destroyed Egyptian city.