“The boy “”Mohammed””, known by his nickname “”Hamama””, is fourteen years old and has an exceptional talent for playing football. He always looks up to the famous player “”Mohammed Salah”” as his idol and dreams of becoming a famous and international player like him. However, due to his and his family’s poverty, all his attempts to join a renowned club fail, as this requires money and connections, which he does not have.
On the other hand, Hamama’s family is surprised when “”Abu Ayman,”” a seventy-year-old wealthy merchant who lives in the neighborhood and owns the house they live in, comes to their house, and demands to marry Hamama’s seventeen-year-old sister “”Wafaa””, who studies day and night to get her high school diploma and enter medical school.
The family rejects Abu Ayman’s strange request, but they are shocked when he threatens to evict them from his house because he wants to demolish it and build a large residential building in its place. He also demands a large sum of money that the mother borrowed from him since her husband traveled to Libya for work and disappeared.
Abu Ayman gives the family a month to repay the money or he will present the promissory notes to the police to have the mother arrested.
Hamama’s family feels lost, and the mother is determined to protect her family at all costs. She works as a bread seller to meet the family’s needs.
Hamama thinks of how he can help his family and tells his mother that he can work driving a tuk-tuk to help the family repay Abu Ayman’s debts and to protect his sister Wafaa from this tyrant who wants to marry her while she is the age of his grandchildren.”