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- A visually stunning adaptation from a banned short story of the same title by renowned Egyptian writer Youssef Idriss, House of Flesh casts a widow who believes that her daughters' prospects for finding a husband would improve if there were a man in her house and agrees to marry a blind young sheikh. In the house brimming with pent-up sexual desire and longing, the presence of the blind man becomes a spark of fire in a dry field of grass.
- The story is about two young men selling clothes in the street who are chased by the police and have their commodities confiscated. To pay back their boss they undertake a job to return to her a petty LE5,000 -- the "dead money" of the title -- which another thug had never paid back. This simple story of greed is reminiscent of Geofrey Chaucer's Canterbury tale about the three friends with the moral: "Radix malorum est cupiditas" or "Greed is the root of all evil." The plot takes several twists and is highly stylized with a frantic pace which conveys the dog-eat-dog way of life.