When a young woman is murdered in the high-class Hilton hotel in Cairo, veteran police officer “Noredin” (Fares Fares) is drafted in for what everyone expects to be a routine investigation where nobody really cares. Quite swiftly, however, he begins to suspect that there might be something altogether more sinister going on. It’s not that he’s offended or surprised by the crime or the corruption, indeed he has no compunction in bribing or helping himself - but this crime looks like it might have some political dimension to it when he begins to suspect that sleazy parliamentarian “Shafiq” (Ahmed…
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