Top billed cast

1. 

   Zain Al Rafeea

   Zain

2. 

   Yordanos Shifera

   Rahil

3. 

   Boluwatife Treasure Bankole

   Yonas

4. 

   Kawsar Al Haddad

   Souad

5. 

   Fadi Kamel Yousef

   Selim

6. 

   Cedra Izzam

   Sahar

7. 

   Alaa Chouchnieh

   Aspro

8. 

   Elias Khoury

   The Judge

9. 

   Nadine Labaki

   Nadine

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-09-19

There’s something distinctly Dickensian about the urchin style of life lived by “Zain” (Zain Al-Rafeea) on the modern-day streets of Lebanon. He has to use his wits and guile, his charm and his youth to scrape a living after he ran away from his parents. He did this because they gave his beloved eleven-year-old sister to be married! He lucks out a little in that he quickly encounters “Rahil” (Yordanos Shiferaw) who is herself a refugee from Ethiopia and who needs some help looking after her baby “Yonas”. She offers him a place to sleep and some food and he babysits, but when she ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Arabic

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$64,978,931.00

Keywords

• child abuse
• slum
• refugee
• neglect
• child bride
• lawsuit
• undocumented immigrant
• poverty
• life in the slums
• slum dwellers