El Medina

Ali is a young actor, son of a market gardener, who works in the Rod El Farag district. One day, Ali abandons his family, friends, his job and his love to go to Paris, alone. He starts taking boxing lessons, dreaming of making it into the big time. His career is soon compromised by fights fixing which means he always has to lose. But Ali rebels. His enemies take revenge and put him in hospital, where he awakes an amnesiac. The end of his lonely life in Paris is marked. However, his stay in Paris teaches him one essential lesson : all towns are alike, which is why, in order to find yourself, you must first find out who you are. Fully recovered, and regenerated, Ali finally decides to go home to Cairo, to rediscover his past and take up his formerlife again. (Pyramide Distribution)