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A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?

Cast

Hiam Abbass

Played Eftikhar
Raya Khatib

Played Ruba
Manal Awad

Played Safia
Mirna Sakhla

Played Zeinab
Maisa Abd Elhadi

Played Wedad
Dina Shuhaiber

Played Salma
Victoria Balitska

Played Christine
Reem Talhami

Played Wafaa
Raneem Al Daoud

Played Mariam
Nelly Abou Sharaf

Played Natalie
Huda Al Imam

Played Sameeha
Samira Al Aseer

Played Fatima
Wedad Al Naser

Played Sawsan
Tarzan Nasser

Played Ahmed

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