The Leech

Imam comes from the countryside to Cairo to study. His mother sells the cow she has in order to send him. The young man is to study at Dar al-Uloom. He takes a room in the city. His landlady is a woman named Shafaat. She is drawn to his youth. A relationship starts between them. Imam becomes more and more tied to it. His studies begin to slip. His health suffers as well. A young woman who has known him since childhood helps him. Her father tells him to get away from that house. Shafaat works to keep him with her. The film does not present the woman as evil from the outset. It shows the conditions she lives in too. Shadia and Tahiya Cariocca appear in the one hundred twenty minute film, an Egyptian production Salah Abu Seif finished in 1956.