In the near future, a sleeping sickness spreads across the
Arab world. The streets of major cities fill with sleeping
people who won’t wake up. A powerful tech company, NILE,
develops a treatment.
One morning, Ahmed (38), an Egyptian voice-actor, find
that his wife Nour (34) didn’t come home. When he learns
she left him to start a new family, he does everything he can
to prevent their daughter Leil (7) from finding out. But then
Ahmed suddenly develops the sleeping sickness.
Drifting in and out of sleep, his dreams feel more like
memories – memories belonging to Nour’s research
assistant and sister. He sees Nour wasn’t having an affair.
NILE kidnapped her after she made a startling astronomical
discovery. But when Ahmed wakes up, he finds no evidence
of what happened.
Leil goes missing, and Ahmed must stay awake to find her.
He sees fragments of his daughter’s memory of witnessing
her mother’s kidnapping and running away with proof of
NILE’s crime.
When Ahmed finds Leil, he can’t distinguish dreams and
reality. He must choose between finding Nour and getting the
treatment that will stop him from falling asleep forever. Faced
with forgetting what really happened to his wife, he looks for a
way to leave something of the truth for his daughter.