‘Lust’ takes us into a marginalised street in Alexandria and the lives of its residents. Umm Shooq is a woman whose feelings of inadequacy drive her to gain power over the world in which she lives.
Umm Shooq has run away from her wealthy family to marry the man she loves and has settled into a life of poverty in a marginalised street in Alexandria. In this world, she sells coffee to neighbours and reads their fortunes. Desperate to pay for a life-saving operation for her son, she returns to Cairo to ask her family for money, but finds she cannot face the shame and starts begging on the streets. Back in Alexandria, her son dies; finally Umm Shooq returns to Cairo as a beggar.
