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Cairo, 1919. World War I has claimed the lives of many Egyptian soldiers serving in the British army, the Spanish flu has devastated the country, and nationalist leaders are being deported amid violent mass protests. Abdel Kader, an apolitical drug dealer nicknamed El Gin, continues doing business with the colonizers despite the unrest. But when lawlessness begins to grip the country, he joins forces with an underground resistance unit led by the doctor Ahmed Kira.