Feature film Beauty and The Dogs
21 year-old Mariam attends a party held at a discotheque on the grounds of her school, during which her dress tears, and she has to borrow a more “revealing” one from a co-student. In the darkness of the party, only lit by the disco lights, she meets handsome young Youssef. Together the head to the beach, for a walk that ends in Mariam being raped by two police officers passing by. Mariam (strongly portrayed by Mariam Al Ferjani) and Youssef then spend the entire night fighting for justice under nightmarish circumstances, at the police station, a private clinic, and a public hospital. In an unruly system where people would rather protect their own interests than help a raped woman, the two are just being pushed around.
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