Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern EgyptCairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectabilityand love affairs. Sara, a working class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayahs friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who wont treat her like a whore just because shes a dancer; and Alia, a