by Jason Buchanan
synopsis
Veteran film producer Hussein Qalla emerges from retirement to tell this controversial tale of four Cairo University slackers who reject the expectations imposed on them by family and society in favor of getting high and chasing girls. An unanticipated box-office hit when originally released in Cairo, this low-budget look into the lives of every day adolescents favors realism over fiction, and refuses to cast judgment on it's aimless protagonists.
