- As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
- The movie is about two brothers from a middle-class family, a chemist and his brother, who works in petty jobs, takes drugs and mingles with the wrong crowd. To discourage him from this path, the chemist concocts a mix of hash that doesn't include any narcotic substance to convince his brother that addiction is a fiction and a delusion. When the brother finds out the trick, he tries to convince his chemist brother to cook some more to sell as an alternative to the addictive hash. Facing economic difficulties, the chemist brother agrees, but the cocktail attracts the attention of a powerful drug lord who tries to convince the chemist to work for him. As the latter refuses to work for the drug lord, the lives of the two brothers spirals out of control.—D.
- Two brothers from a conservative family. The older brother, Salah Abu Al-Azm (Yahya Al-Fakharani), succeeded in his academic and professional life, graduating from the Faculty of Science with a degree in Chemistry and working for a government company after obtaining his Ph.D. He leads a peaceful life with his wife (Raja - Nora) and their only son (Koki - Karim Abu Zeid), despite the difficult living conditions and his meager government salary that barely covers their monthly needs. However, he is content with what God has given him. The younger brother, Jamal Abu Al-Azm (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz), on the other hand, falls into the trap of drugs and becomes addicted. The older brother is saddened by the younger brother's situation after finding him enslaved to drugs. He creates a mixture of henna, herbal ingredients, aromatic oils, and chemical scents that closely resemble cannabis in color, texture, material, and smell, but is completely free of drugs. He gives it to his brother, who deceives him and consumes it along with his friends, believing it to be genuine cannabis. The next day, the older brother surprises him by revealing that what he drank yesterday was not cannabis, but a drug-free herbal mixture. He tries to convince him that the high he experiences is merely an illusion created by the smoke and the noise of the gathering. Jamal tries to exploit his brother's genius and convinces him that he will try to abstain from real drugs on the condition that his brother creates a large piece for him to distribute among his friends and gradually distance himself from real drugs. The older brother agrees and creates a large piece for this innocent purpose. However, Jamal takes advantage of the situation and sells this piece to drug dealers (Abdou Al-Karf and Mohy El-Din Abdel Mohsen) as genuine drugs. He knows from the first glance that it is not drugs, but he is impressed by the genius of its creator, especially since he will have no difficulty in turning it into drugs by grinding a quantity of hallucinogenic pills and mixing them with the innocent mixture made by Salah Abu Al-Azm. Afterward, Jamal persuades his brother Salah with difficulty to sell this "precious" piece, which supposedly protects people from the harms of drugs, as they believe they are consuming real drugs. In reality, it is a large quantity of distributing this mixture. He convinces Salah's wife that his extra income is due to his work in a company in the afternoon, while Jamal invests his money in recording a cassette tape containing vulgar lyrics and songs. Until Salah, the chemist, accidentally discovers that his mixture has been tampered with by adding hallucinogenic pills, and that its harmful effects are much worse than those of real cannabis. He refrains from producing more of his mixture and asks his brother Jamal to stop. At the same time, the major drug dealer asks Jamal to prepare a ton of the mixture after informing him that he knew the truth and that he was buying henna, not cannabis. Jamal goes to his brother Salah, demanding him to prepare the ton and guide him to the person who makes this magical formula. Unable to bear the torture, Jamal reveals his brother's address to them. They bring him and, after injecting him with drugs, imprison him. Salah, after that, becomes a helpless addict, creating whatever his brother wants, while Jamal, despite himself, turns away from singing and drugs after witnessing the degradation of himself and his brother. The roles are reversed, and the film returns to the starting point. Instead of saving his brother Salah from the harms of drugs, he becomes an addict against his will, while his brother Jamal refrains from addiction by his own will, not due to the insistence of his older brother, who has lost everything - his health, home, and job. The film is one of the strongest Egyptian films of the 1980s and is classified as one of the most important Egyptian films due to the brilliance of its writer, director, and cast.
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