This is the third film by Cairo director Atef El Tayeb, best known for his 1982 feature, The Busdriver. His newest work concerns the rude political awakening of a naive villager. The Munich Film Festival said: "A simple man from the country is called up into the army and engaged by the security services as a warder in a prison camp where some well-known politicians, dissidents and intellectuals are kept locked up. He is inculcated with the story that these prisoners are traitors to a man and he treats them with appropriate brutality. One day a young man from his home town whom he had known in his youth is brought to the camp. The warder knows that man could never be a traitor in his life and when he refuses to treat him with the same brutality as the others, he is locked up with him in the same cell. The young man tells him who the true enemies of the country are and the meaning of the words 'freedom' and 'justice'."