Closed Doors

The film is set in Egypt in 1990. The Gulf War is under way and the country is uneasy. Fatma is a woman who has been abandoned by her husband. She works as a maid in the house of a wealthy man. Her son Mohammed is in his teens. At school the boy is bullied by his teacher Mansour. That same man draws close to his mother. He takes advantage of her difficult position. Mohammed sees it and does not know what to do. The shame inside him grows. Around this time he meets a man called Sheikh Khalid. The man draws him into a religious circle. The circle grows harder as time passes. The boy begins to punish outside himself the shame he carries. It ends in disaster. Sawsan Badr and Ahmed Azmy appear in the hundred and five minute film, an Egyptian production Atef Hetata finished in 1999.