A funny, wise and heartbreakingly poignant story filled with laugh-out-loud humor.
Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...
Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz's novels, this is a gripping family saga, with a monstrous father, loving mother and their four children, set in seductive Cairo from 1917 to 1953 against a backdrop of political upheaval." --- The Times
