Chicago

In a post-9/11 Chicago, a medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of llinois Medical Center.

Among the players are an anti-establishment American professor of the sixties generation, whose relationship with a younger African-American woman becomes a moving target for intolerance; a veiled PhD candidate whose conviction in the code of her traditional upbringing is shaken by her exposure to American society; an emigre who has fervently embraced his new American identity, but who cannot escape his Egyptian roots when faced with the issue of his daughter's 'honour'; an Egyptian State Security informant who spouts religious doctrines while hankering after money and power; and a dissident student poet who comes to America with the sale aim of financing his literary aspirations, but whose experience in Chicago turns out to be more than he bargained for.