Despite crossing paths several times and even though each of them is looking for a soulmate, Tarek and Laila never meet. Salwa, the narrator, decides to interfere and starts a series of comic attempts to set them up.
Tarek, 29, and Laila, 22, are lonely people looking for love. Neither has recovered from emotional trauma: Tarek’s girlfriend Hend broke up with him without explanation, and Laila is estranged from her father after he remarried. They have a lot in common but are unaware of it. They’ve had the same dream since childhood, both studied at the Department of Architecture at the School of Fine Arts, Laila uses the same drawing table Tarek once did, they live in Downtown Cairo, and both have pet hamsters.
Laila and Tarek cross paths several times yet never actually meet, as if an invisible barrier separates them. Even though Sameh, Tarek’s only friend, teaches at the School of Fine Arts and supervises Laila’s graduation project, he never thinks to introduce them. Only Salwa, the narrator, sees the similarities and decides to defy fate and set them up. Salwa is no ordinary narrator—she interferes in events, lies at times, and speaks with rhotacism and humour.
In every episode, Salwa tries to bring Tarek and Laila together by subtly influencing their lives and those around them, using the butterfly effect. Each episode focuses on one character she uses to do so. Will she succeed in uniting them, or are they not ready to meet?
