"Dreams of Hind and Camilia is a delicate, convincing story of the friendship between two chambermaids°.Camilia (played with popular feminism by Nagla Fathi) is an independent-minded girl who prefers to live on her wages cleaning houses than to lose her freedom by marrying. Hind (the gentle Aida Riyadh) is a timid country girl in love with handsome rascal Eid (played by the irresistible Ahmed Zaki). Camilia dreams of getting a house with Hind, but Hind dreams of marrying Eid°.The girls get by on their work and their wits (especially Camilia's) and their friendship is attractive and credible (as) the two women lean on each other for support." (Variety) Amid a convincing, though not condescending, portrayal of the brutality and hopelessness that mark the lives of Cairo's poor, especially its women, "the two housemaids°invent a whole new family together°a sisterhood unusual in Arab cinema." (Lizbeth Malkmus/ Roy Armes, Arab &African Film Making)