Salwa Azzab

After living his whole life in Mazarita, Fazza' finally decides to turn his life around once and for all. He moves to Cairo to experience city life, to which he is unaccustomed, and goes through all of its difficulties and comedic contrasts.

Mansoura is an orphan girl who worked in an orphanage and defended the orphan girls against Abla Afarm, the director of the shelter, which prompted Afarm to fabricate a theft case against her and forced her to flee the village to Cairo to search for her uncle who ate up her share of her father’s inheritance nine years ago. In Cairo, Mansoura finds her uncle working as a poor man. A janitor for a building in the Manial Al-Rawda neighborhood.

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

A young man, who has little experience in life and looks at everything around him from one perspective, goes through a one-day journey that makes him question all his notions.

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.