Marcides
(Marcides)

During a cocktail party in Cairo one evening, lovely Warda faits for an African diplomat…who promptly leaves her pregnant. Her mother, learning the news, forces her to marry a rich, old Egyptian to”save the honour of the family”.Fortunately, the child is born white.. Only his blond hair belies a genetic joke. In memory of her fugitive lover, Warda names the child Noubi, who after a wild and idealistic childhood (he wants to bequeath his fortune to the Egyptian Left !), is locked up in a psychiatric hospital. When he is released, Noubi returns to his now widowed mother, who lives with a very simplistic notion of society:”There are two kinds of people: those who own a Mercedes and those who dream of owning one”.Later, an inspector asks Noubi to find Gamal, his supposed cousin, a homosexual who works as a painter and leads a delinquent’s existence. Noubi learns that Gamal is in fact his own brother. Noubi then meets lovely Afifa and falls in love with her, because she is the spitting image of his mother…