In 1959, a maverick teacher returns to his alma mater and uses poetry to inspire his students to think for themselves and seize the day.
A female refugee seeking asylum in Paris finds solace and purpose in writing poetry, as she navigates the challenges of her new life and grapples with the emotional burdens of her past.
In this anthology film, Rex Harrison introduces a series of love stories featuring themes of murder, literature, and romance. The stories include a painter who falls in love with a murderess, a computer programmer who discovers love through his work, and a world war two veteran who finds love after the war.
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
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