SUMMER 2007
Yehia!
What are you doing, Yehia?
Whoo!
Everything is great, huh?
You okay?
-I don't get it. I'm confused. -What now? Did you change your mind?
Why are you treating me like this?
I told you not to tell her anything, but you still went and told her.
Calm down.
What did you want me to do?
I wanted you to be a man, Ali.
I'm very sorry, Mona.
NADIA SUMMER 2007
ECHOES OF THE PAST
Yehia Mohamed El-Sayed Mahran!
INMATE
QASR EL NIL POLICE STATION
-Good morning. -Welcome.
-A bottle of water. -It's in the fridge.
Nadia, you're all I have.
Nadia, I have no one but you. Don't leave me.
Nadia, don't leave me.
Nadia! Nadia!
Nadia!
Wake up, please, wake up.
Nadia!
I have no one else, Nadia.
Nadia, I have no one but you.
You won't leave me, I know you can't leave me.
Nadia!
Nadia.
Why? Nadia.
It's your fault! You did that!
It's your fault! You did that to my sister!
It's your fault!
-Ali! Yehia! -You did that to my sister!
-Enough! Yehia, enough! -Let go! Let go!
It's his fault, Sherif!
It's his fault!
Welcome back, brother.
Glad you're okay.
I hope I'm not too late.
They have men tailing me.
-Don't look. -Should I lose them?
No, just stay far ahead of them.
Oh, I just need a way to move freely without raising suspicion.
Let's just get the IDs first, then we'll figure things out.
We need two photos.
-Pass by the workshop when you're free. -Okay.
Open the glove compartment. You'll find what you want.
In here, are photos of the whole family.
Except for the middle sister, Mona.
She got married and left the country. They've been living abroad for years.
Everyone else is still at the villa.
The son moved out. He left when he got married.
But not for long. A year later, he came back to work with his father.
He got divorced.
Thanks, Fatla.
-How is it going with the factory? -Done.
But what about those thugs behind us?
You just focus on the factory.
I'll tell you what we'll do.
Sure thing.
No.
Tell me something to make me laugh.
-Honestly, yeah. -It means you like her.
Don't side with her against your sister, jerk.
I'm not siding with anyone. Is she a bad cook, yes or no?
No, she's great. Her food warms my heart.
There's a difference between your heart and tummy.
It was a delight to my tummy. Okay?
I hope you marry her, so she feeds you every day.
So that you can, you know…
You've become mean. Are you jealous?
Why would I be jealous of her? How can she compare herself to me.
I don't understand why you're so jealous.
You make me laugh.
Whose fault was it? Who was responsible for the diving gear?
Who was supposed to check everything before the dive and rescue her underwater?
-Wasn't it Ali? -Yehia, we are a family, right?
Right now, we need to figure a way out of this situation and stick together.
Right?
When they ask you, say that you were in charge of the dive, not Ali.
What? You want me to say that I killed my sister?
That was an accident, not a murder.
-No, murder! -Manslaughter.
That's what the law says.
-Yehia, it was a mistake. -You must be insane.
-I'd never say I did this to my sister! -Listen, son.
The lawyer told me that the DA will treat this case as a misdemeanor.
Just negligence resulting in death.
And such cases in court get a three-year sentence.
So, if you say you were responsible,
the DA and the judge will be sympathetic.
You'll only get one year.
And do you know what the price for that year will be?
Is that price only to save Ali?
Or to not lose your nomination to the ministry?
Leave us alone.
I'm a practical, direct man,
and you're smart and will understand.
So let's do the math.
Your position… Tell me, who's going to pay your college expenses?
Especially now that Nadia is dead?
If Ali goes to jail,
who is going to help pay for your mother's medical treatment?
How will you manage it?
Let's get out of the catastrophe with minimum damage.
Hm?
Nadia!
Nadia, don't leave me.
Don't do it, Yehia. Let's travel.
Let's go and leave all of this behind.
It's just one year, they said, and that's all.
Then, I might think of trav--
Do you think that you'll be the same person when you come out?
Do you think that even I will be the same person?
Don't do it, Yehia.
This is not for you.
At least for your mother's sake.
You don't get it, Sherif.
No matter what, you're still one of them. Even if you try to--
You're just kidding yourself to justify it.
What do you mean, I don't get it? If I were in your shoes, I'd--
You could never be in my shoes, Sherif.
Do you get that? You could never be in my shoes.
Yehia Mohamed El-Sayed Mahran!
If you insist on doing this, Yehia,
you'll never see me again.
We just… We just went on a trip.
When we got there, I suggested that…
YEHIA EL-SAYED
Mr. Amr?
-Mr. Massoud? -Yeah.
Get in.
Drive straight to the market.
Continue straight 100 feet.
Your destination is on the left.
I heard that the factory went bankrupt in the '70s.
So how could you turn it around to be successful?
No, it never really went bankrupt.
We just stopped operations for a while.
Because my father, may he rest in peace,
used to run it the old-fashioned way.
What we call "the family system" in business administration.
I took it over when I was 26 years old.
And I changed everything.
I turned it into an institutional system,
changed the finance structure and created a new labor system,
until it became what you see today.
Of course he was very proud of you.
Yeah, of course, very, very proud. God rest his soul.
Very, very proud. Very, very proud. God rest his soul.
Nothing to report.
He finished work and went home.
He's done nothing else for a whole month, sir.
Yes, sir.
Now.
Good choice, Fatla.
At your service.
Its owner will pick it up early tomorrow morning.
Take good care of it, and of yourself too.
Don't worry.
-Please. -I said don't worry.
I mean the car.
Your Honor, esteemed assembly of the court,
the prosecution has thoroughly investigated all of the details
and persons pertaining to the incident.
which seemed, initially, to be an ordinary drowning incident,
but we saw some inconsistencies between the facts and the witnesses' testimonies.
And we recognized the possibility of it being more than mere negligence
once we saw the scene of the incident and the victim's body.
JUSTICE IS THE FOUNDATION OF GOVERNANCE
Then we received the forensics report,
which confirms that the victim's diving equipment
was intentionally tampered with.
-The holes in the oxygen tube… -What do you mean?
…that was used by the victim
were deliberately made using a sharp instrument.
No! No! No! That's not what happened! Say something!
…Yehia Mohamed El-Sayed Mahran with the deliberate murder of his sister…
Don't look at me like that! You know what happened!
-…Nadia Mahran. -That's not what happened!
-Order in the courtroom! -Say something, Mahfouz!
That's not what happened! That's not what happened! Say something, Mahfouz!
Tell them that I won't be quiet! Tell them I'll say who did it!
Shut your mouth! What are you raving about?
-Who do you think you're threatening? -Didn't you hear the prosecution?
Is that etched in stone?
We still have the appeal. What do you think I'm here for?
She was murdered? I don't understand.
Then let me explain it.
We'll file a motion to review the forensics report.
We're also going to demand a reinvestigation,
to prove that what happened wasn't a felony.
A thousand other things could happen instead of all that noise you just made!
I want to go home.
Just the one year you agreed on with Mr. Yassin, and then you'll go home.
But the most importantly thing is to keep your mouth shut.
Stop talking nonsense.
No one would listen to you. Whatever you say is worthless.
Your confession is already on record.
So no sense angering Mr. Yassin with loud and empty threats.
Right?
You're punctual, Counselor.
Remember me? It's been 15 years, after all.
Say something, Mahfouz!
See what prison does to you?
Another move like that one, and I swear on Nadia's soul,
I'll send you back to your creator. Got it?
Now, tell me.
What happened?
Why did I go to prison?
When the forensics report came back,
it said that it was deliberate.
What we thought to be manslaughter due to negligence turned out to be murder.
He could face the death penalty.
There was nothing I could do about it!
-Who did it? -That doesn't matter.
I don't know!
No one in the family knew.
And even when the report came out, we were all surprised!
Surprised?
And the baby Nadia's was pregnant with? You didn't know about it?
No.
Huh.
How did you hide it?
With a bribe?
-Bribe? -Yes.
The coroner's office?
Yeah. Yes. Yes.
What were you afraid of?
Your sister was pregnant.
Any lawyer could have made it look like an honor killing.
You would have gotten a lighter sentence.
And no one could have anticipated what you might have done!
So I had to rot in prison.
Yehia must keep believing that her death was an accident.
For 15 years,
I've had two images stuck in my mind.
My sister, who you drowned,
and my mother, who you killed with grief.
For 15 years, I've seen every single one of you
with their blood on your hands.
You, Yassin,
Sawsan, and Ali!
Not counting my life wasted in prison, you bastards!
You know what kept me going all those years?
This moment.
Everything that's coming from now on,
will finish what you started years ago,
and you thought was over.
Everything that happens now
will end what you started then,
and you thought was over.
Everything that happens now will end what you started then
and you thought…
MR. MAHFOUZ EL-SAYED AHMED
No. I believe that the partnership with them has proven to be successful.
Yes. Within the 20% supply limit.
And what's the problem with making it 50%? We'd still be winning.
No, we won't.
It'll put us under their thumb.
And I don't like to be under anybody's thumb.
If we're signing a new contract with them, it has to be on my own terms.
Dad… Dad, please.
The machinery we'll get from them will significantly improve our production.
Why are you all silent? You've all seen the feasibility study.
And you've studied it.
And you can see where we'll be in a year or two.
-Dad? Dad? -Hm.
Are you listening?
Is something wrong?
No.
Okay, we'll resume this meeting some other time.
We can't do that. The man arrives into Cairo tomorrow morning.
-Fine, whatever you say. -Wait, Ali.
Mahfouz, the lawyer, was murdered, and his picture was just sent to me.
But who did this?
Yehia.
Yehia is out?
A month ago.
Why didn't you tell us?
I've had him watched, and I thought he wasn't a threat.
But apparently, I was wrong.
What are we supposed to do?
We have to cancel the party.
This party is important for the new contract.
Or the associates will think we have problems.
Everything will stay as planned.
I'll handle it.
Dad, why did you pick me up.
I didn't find you at home, dear, so I got worried.
That's all.
Why?
Is something wrong?
No, no.
Just a few problems at work.
But it'll be okay.
Salah Maldini.
He's been at the factory for three months. Just like you asked.
How are you, Maldini?
All good, Mr. Yehia. Thank you.
-What we say… you'll keep? -Sure.
You're with the big boss.
Don't worry about Maldini.
He's like a son to me.
I've explained everything to him.
I want to get into the factory.
Mr. Yehia, I don't want to lie to you. It's not easy.
But… But it's possible, it's possible.
Yassin,
and his son Ali, they go there every day?
No, not every day.
But they might be coming more often now.
They installed new machines in the factory and they're discussing a new partnership.
I need you to stay inside and to keep your eyes open.
Sure.
You need anything else?
Not for now.
Now get going, kiddo.
-Okay, bye. -Goodbye.
Take care of yourself.
You sure you don't want to move out of that place?
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