Perfumed with Mint (Moatar Be Al Neinai)
Qumra Projects
/ Feature Narrative / Egypt, France, Brazil, Qatar
In Arabic
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
Alaa, a struggling doctor, gets a visit from a 'Sensor', whose superpowers can't help her find her missing son. They make a deal in which he searches for the young man in the hospital morgue where he works, and in return, she dries Alaa's love letter that has somehow been cursed to be soaked. In the hospital, he encounters his past—a ghost, a plant—he can't tell. He soon believes it is his old friend Mahdy with mint sprouting out of his head. Mahdy has brought trouble, and without much time to hesitate, Alaa has to run with his old friend rather than rat him out.
Alaa and Mahdy are without shelter, while the mint smell attracts forces that want to abduct them. Now the fugitives are chased throughout their deteriorating city. They are led through a series of disturbing encounters with former comrades. Those who were once bonded by devotion are now estranged, faithless, and reeking of mint. Will the two friends find a way out of this nightmare, endlessly chased by memories of loss? Or will they be left to dry, waiting and hiding in the streets where they once lived peacefully?