He's staring at me!
- No, at me - Look, he's staring at me!
- No, staring at me! - How come? Prove it!
See? He's giving me the eye
- Watch out, he'll see you! - I want him to!
Why would you?
Why would you want him to see you?
- By the way, he'll marry me - No, me
- He'll marry me! - No, me!
- No! - No, me!
"Tell No One"
Don't you do this to me!
Some fuel! Fuel!
Hello
I'm near Ras Gharib. Can you come help me out?
Sorry, doctor, Ramadan starts tomorrow, we're swamped here
My replacement won't come before an hour
An hour is too long! Can't you send anyone sooner?
Anyway, I'll try to manage. Will ring back if I can't
Thanks, Taha. Blessed Ramadan
Taha! Enough with the mushy talk, come take your money
500 pounds! Well-earned anyway
"U-Turn"
- Shahd! - Hassan, how are you?
Why're you off the road here?
I ran out of fuel
And you're just sitting here for some to come your way or what?
Of course not, I rang that petrol station in El Gouna
They can only send someone after an hour
It's already been more than an hour, still, nobody came
The nearest petrol station doesn't have 95 RON
El Gouna station is the nearest that provides it
Would 92 RON be good enough to drive back to Cairo?
If you're lucky enough
Settled then, I'm calling a tow truck
I'll be fine, you may go
Want me to go!
It'll be curfew time when the tow truck arrives
Let's go get some fuel from El Gouna
No, thanks. I don't want to trouble you
I can't leave you stranded out here I don't bite, you know, come on
- I'll wait for you here - Come on!
Where is your mask?
I have none
Put it on
Spray me with chlorine solution, too?
No, but you can buckle up
- Prefer any specific music? - No, whatever
Hello
Where are you, Shahd? Got lost or something?
I swear I'm on the road, mom
- Don't swear, you're lying - Believe me!
- I am on the road, want a pic? - Pic! Just focus while driving
I am focusing!
- So, where are you now really? - Just left El Gouna
- No, you're going back there - What? Just left now! Why so late?
I had to stop by the hospital before leaving
Coming to visit me for one day, now you're wasting it on the road!
One day, mom! Come on!
Here we go!
- Who's the man that's yelling? - I'll spend a whole week with you!
Hopefully. Just come quickly!
- No, no, drive slowly! - Okay
- Drive slowly! - Bye
Liars go to hell!
I didn't lie, just told her half the truth to spare me a headache and her nagging!
Maybe you think only some have the right to spare themselves such a headache?
Why'd you buy a right-hand side navigation car?
Queen of England, or something?
A Porsche for half the price, its owner is relocating abroad
Very much worth learning how to drive it
Have you learned that?
Yeah, I have, and learned many other things, too
- Wear the gloves! - This is not a surgery!
I don't wanna feel guilty if you get infected
No problem for you if I get infected from another source?
- Hi there - Sir!
- Welcome, sir - Fill them up
- Here you go - Thanks a lot
Tell you what, I'm starving, let's stop and eat
Curfew time is near, drive me back, then eat all you like
What should I eat while on the road? Fried or grilled fuel?
- Bad joke? - Very!
Let's grab a pizza, a quick takeaway
Fine
Excuse me
Hi, Shenouda, morning
- Good morning, doc - How are you, Shenouda?
I want a seafood pizza without all the extras
No olives, mushrooms, onions or peppers!
No pizza at all more like it!
Isn't this your usual order, or have things changed?
No, nothing has changed
- I want pizza... - Small, too
You forgot to ask for a small one
No, I didn't, but they don't serve small pizza here
- Hey, I want a salami pizza - Alright, sir
Add all the extras from the seafood pizza
Okay, sir
- Tell you what, add seafood to it! - Okay, sir
I always find a new project to work on, after finishing the one at hand
By the way, this is my third Hurghada project
Are Sally and the kids with you here?
- Why not? - Better this way for me
Less of a burden, at least, I miss them and go back to see them
The kids...
What about them?
I mean I miss the kids only so, I go home to see them
Honestly, I can't imagine living in Cairo again
Yeah, I read you
I force myself to go back there, basically only to see mom
Yeah, how's aunt Karima doing?
Fine
Thank God
Let her come live with you here
Are you serious, Hassan?
I'm avoiding her, shall I bring her over to stay with me?
You just want to be by yourself
Kind of, for a while
A while? It's been years, Shahd
Why ask questions you know the answers to?
You, too, ask questions you know the answers to
- Heat it up well for the road - Right away
- Want anything from Cairo? - No, thanks
Sugar?
- Same as mine, no sugar - Okay
Coffee, please, quickly, I am in a hurry
- Omar! - Hi, Shahd
- How are you? - Fine
- What's up? - Hassan... Omar
Hiya, what's up?
- Off to Cairo now - Really?
Would you take a small package for me?
- I'll send someone to collect it - Sure
Right, will get it and be back in ten
I won't be late, don't worry. Put my coffee over there
Right
- Curfew time is near! - We gotta help each other out
There is time
There is time!
Hey
Your back still aches?
A bit, when I forget and add stress, it aches back as if in revenge!
Expected for your age!
Zip it!
- I can help out with that - No, thanks
So sorry for keeping you
- No problem - Thank you so much
Let's go, time's up. Do you know all guys in El Gouna or what?
All residents here know each other
Besides, I'm a doctor, you know, so I've probably examined everyone before
Shake a leg, doctor, to be back before curfew starts, then!
- Still fear driving fast? - I never did
Slow down, we got time!
You gotta be kidding!
We'll cause a crash!
For the odor
Thanks
Don't just leave them here!
You must come with me to the construction site one day!
No, no need. Just put them in your car
Okay
You drive ahead of me
You'll be too bored! You won't be able to put up with it
I will be, but will put up with it
You've been telling me for six hours that you're on the road!
- Coming on foot? - Yeah, sort of
- I'll tell you when I get there - Can't wait to hear what you got to say!
Drive faster, please!
- Sorry, mom, I got caught up in something - Hope you're not planning to skip it again!
Ramadan starts tomorrow, Sally's parents will come over
- Don't embarrass me with them again - I am coming, I swear
- Did you actually leave? - I am on the road
Can't you hear me honking the horn? Here!
Hi there. No radar for the next 60km
Don't care even if they were 600km!
- What about the curfew? - I am a doctor, no issues for me
A doctor! What about me? Just get in trouble?
This doesn't concern me
Stop it, Sally, please! Surely I don't want to spend the night out here!
Hey, I gotta charge my phone, I'll call you later, bye
I left my ID behind, they won't let me through
"I'm a doctor, no issues for me"! You were so confident!
- Cut it out, don't nitpick at me! - What? I'll nitpick at you as I want!
You ought to thank me, hadn't you eaten you'd be starving by now
Yes, mom, why are you so worried?
- Just please! - What is it?
I'm fed up! I've had it
It's not my first time to sleep away from home consider me at a night shift
We're here to have fun, not fight!
Don't worry, I'm just fine
I met some friends
Some doctor friends, mom! Why all this?
Why all the drama? Stop nagging me!
Okay, bye-bye
Just play with this...
"Some doctor friends, mom"! Alright!
Don't lean on the car like this
"Hey, hey... hey, hey!"
"Shaaban has ended and Ramadan has come"
"Hey, hey!"
Pack the shopping in two bags, please
One for the ordinary water bottles, the other for the sparkling water
- Okay - What's all this? Alcohol, wipes, tissues
- Why not buy dish soap, too? - We'll need that, you'll see
- Nothing to eat - No
Only sanitizers, no food?
Take the coffee, I'll go grab a few things, okay?
Okay
- Madam, your card - Thanks
- You're so out of tune! - Everybody does anyway
Open it up a bit more. Thank you
Awful!
You don't have an espresso machine at the work site, do you?
You probably drink the lousiest coffee ever
Why? Think I work in the middle of no where?
I am one of the top dogs, I get whatever I ask for
- Pampered then? - Why'd I turn down being pampered?
It is really awful anyway!
"I hear your voice calling out to me from your house"
"I pass by your door..."
"for no real reason at all"
"I often pass by your door..."
"for no real reason at all"
"Hoping to see you, or even someone who gets to see you"
"I only seek to please God..."
"only to please God..."
"only to please God"
"Then, I seek to please you"
"Then, I seek to please you!"
"Love plays with our souls!"
"Love makes our eyes water!"
"I am in love and find no comfort"
"I'm totally lost in thought!"
"- Help me out, please! - Oh yeah!"
"Oh yeah! Oh yeah! "
"O Sayeda! O Sayeda! Your blessed candles are always lit bright!"
Never knew you were into such music!
I know all such folkloric songs by heart, the workers sing all the time
"Your blessed candles are always lit bright "
"You come from a revered lineage!"
"Your mother is a real noble lady!"
"O Mother Karima! "
"- O Mother ! O Mother! - Zip it!"
"O Mother ! O Mother!"
"O Sayeda Zeinab!"
"O Mother ! O Mother!"
"A boy tells his uncle..."
"...how he saw a ship sailing by, and how impressive it was!"
"- Come here, just come! - Let go of me!"
- "Cut it out, come along!" - "What is this? You're insane!"
"The ship was sailing on a sea of light, all by a divine power!"
"O Prophet!"
"Oh yeah! Oh yeah!"
"- Oh yeah! Oh yeah! - O Prophet!"
Evening
Oh I forgot the keys in the car
I thought to fuel it up to last you The whole road back
Thanks
What a rip-off!
Some used tissues under your seat!
Really? How did you spot them?
How did they get there in the first place?
I have no idea
Here!
Look, this car is practically a trailer
I crash in it sometimes at work
Plus I got nobody to clean up after me!
Aren't you too old for that?
Step up your game!
You got a point
I should start stepping up my game
Rub it well here!
Come on, Shahd! It's my favorite shirt!
Bummer! You love your clothes more than your car!
Even more than my own mother!
Got an extra shirt?
If you get a better offer in Cairo, will you go back there?
I didn't go to El Gouna for a good offer
I just can't stand living in Cairo anymore
Life there makes me on edge, even during my short visits for a few days
It's become too stifling for me, but I must go to see mom
I understand
- You only think so - What do you mean?
That you understand everything
I don't, time taught me I didn't get so many things right
We're grateful for time, then
It's more comfy in your car
Still wake up when someone looks at you while asleep?
Still not even a quake would wake you up?
Did an earthquake just happen?
Depends how you define it
How do you define an earthquake?
Some quakes shake the earth, others shake you to the core
That was long ago
True
Long ago
Thank me for sparing you the queue
Thank you, madam!
Thanks again
Give this to me, remember which is which, so as not to get mixed up
A towel for each of us! Since when?
Don't you realize there is a Corona pandemic going on?
Corona! Come on, doc! We slept together in the car!
Slept in the same car! More accurate phrasing!
- Hands at the back of your head! - No way
Shahd!
How do you feel?
Better
It's getting cold, I must change my pants
Won't be able to queue up for long
I can't put them on in the toilets, they'd touch the floor, yikes!
So much detail to think of!
I learned to do it the hard way once. Shut the trunk door!
- Keep an eye out for me! - Right
- No peeping! - Right
No peeping!
Done!
- How chic! - That's me always!
- Blessed Ramadan, everyone - Blessed Ramadan!
Eat some more
Food is a bit better than the coffee
Hope this ends well, I've not eaten out since that stormy day
- You don't eat street food like we do - I do, sometimes
Just let it be, we Egyptians can handle any food
Sure, and we have solid immunity!
And our kids are the smartest in the world!
The urban myths you people keep propagating bring us down!
I'm a big engineer, one of a kind
It's almost dawn, eat some more, you hardly ate anything
- No, I am fine - Do you mean not to eat much?
Yes, quite frankly
I'll stay with my mother and there will be many banquets
She'll feed me till I feel nauseous hearing anyone mentioning food
Send us some food then, you know my mom isn't a good cook
Your wife can cook for you
God is the Greatest! God is the Greatest!
God is the Greatest!
My employees at the company, both men and women, get petrified seeing me!
Think you can stand up to me, girl?
I can't go back dissatisfied after all I paid!
- I don't get it! What do you want? - I paid a lot, I wanna have fun!
- You take me for the wrong woman! - Do I, really? Wait up!
Wear the mask!
Shove off!
Got a place for me?
She'll trick you like she did me!
- Think it is his wife, or.... - Yeah, that
- His wife must be stuck up - Stuck up?
Yeah, the nip-tuck and fillers type, with lots of jewelry on!
- How can you tell? - They're all like that now
You're all unbelievable!
- We who? - You, men!
- Why stereotype us? - You just did, right?
Fine, never mind her now
What about that awesome car down there?
Yeah, a wow car, its owner must be extra wow!
Why is she wow? Because she's pretty?
No, she's got a unique personality
Her car choice shows it
She doesn't go for the ordinary...
the guaranteed
I didn't go for what was guaranteed, Shahd
I've been trying to avoid this moment since we met
What moment?
This moment, when we'd open closed chapters
Nothing ended or was closed, we did reach this very moment you tried to avoid
No, everything ended for good when you chose the easy way out
"Shahd is of a different religion"
"Too many problems and pressures, from her family, mine, too"
"Why'd I defend my choice?"
"I might as well give up"
"Not only that, I'll go marry her bestie"
"My mother likes her and sees her as..."
"My son's bride"!
You left me to spare yourself a headache, Hassan
Tell you what...
level with me, did they really refuse to let you pass through?
"I am talking seriously, tell no one"
"My heart is reborn, happy and chuffed! "
"My heart can't stand scraps, or much fuss! "
"Much fuss! Tell no one!"
"- Our love is like a pearl - Born the day we met!"
"It's a pearl, a real pearl! No doubt!"
"Cherish this pearl"
"Because it is..."
"Still too young"
"But just right for us!"
- My back aches! - Not the right time!
"- Our love is like a pearl - Born the day we met!"
"It's a pearl, a real pearl! No doubt!"
"I am talking seriously, tell no one"
"My heart is reborn, happy and chuffed!"
"My heart can't stand scraps or much fuss! Tell no one!"
Mom, I am home!
Apparently you did come back on foot!
I'll come see you after my shower
Okay
Ali! Assia!
How are you? I miss you! Come here
How've you been doing? All well? Look at you! What a pretty dress!
- Miss you! How are you? - We're good
I missed you so much!
- How are you, Hassan? - Fine thanks
- Why are you late? - I was on a picnic!
A picnic!
I miss you! I miss you loads! Really!
The kids kept asking after you!
We all miss you so much
- There was no need for that show! - I get you very well, Hassan!
- No, you get nothing at all! - But I do get everything!
- Just shut up, will you? - Want me to shut up, too?
- Just let you be on the loose! - On the loose!
I don't even have friends to go out with!
- I only put up with this for the kids! - I can't put up with you anymore!
- And I can't stand this life anymore! - Can't stand me or the kids?
Don't drag the kids into this! I mean our awful life! We'd better both shut up!
Where are you going?
Shahd! Your phone is ringing! Pick up!
Pick up, Shahd!