Tamer Ezzat
2021The Place I Call Home
Tamer Ezzat
In a rapidly changing and unstable region, young Egyptians like many others around the Arab world aspire to migrate in order to find economic, cultural or religious stability. Four young Egyptians take a journey on different paths to find the place they can each call home. Whether it is for financial, family, religious, career or personal reasons, they search to find true belonging. For some the answer is immigration and for others the answer is right around them.
The Place I Call Home
الطريق الدائري
Tamer Ezzat
Nedal El Shafel, Samia Asaad
In a country where corruption has reached epidemic levels, an investigative journalist tries to reveal the corruption of a medical mogul whose corruption caused the death of dozens without blame. Essam has a daughter who has kidney failure and has been affected by the filters made by this mogul's factory. On another front, Essam is in a stale marriage caused by the daughter's sickness and finds himself lured by an attractive seductress. Things become more complicated when the daughter's sickness becomes fatal and he can't cover the expenses of the transplant. Essam is faced with a deep moral question.should he become corrupt himself in order to save his daughter's life? and how can he save his marriage and reputation along the way?
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