尼罗河上的船屋

The film addresses the decadence of Egyptian society during the Gamal Abdel Nasser era. 　　It tells the story of a simple Egyptian worker, Anis , who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking up smoking hashish in a shisha, a popular smoking habit in Egypt, to escape from reality. 　　Anis meets with an old student, Ragab , by chance. Ragab invites him to the small boat in the Nile. And Anis discovers soon enough that he isn't the only person who smokes shisha but a bunch of other elite, middle class and low class people are all on the boat. He soon discovers that everyone is smoking to forget the reality and hypocrisy of Egyptian life.