

Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.

Saïd Taghmaoui
Ali

Juliette Lewis
Linda

Rupert Graves
Mark

Anna Massey
Sarah Stevenson

Clémentine Célarié
Vivienne

Liam Noble
Bouncer

Flaminia Cinque
Margreta

Karim Belkhadra
Ahmed

Maureen O'Farrell
Belly Dancer

Nayef Rashed
Naief
Badia Obaid
Ali's Mother
Nahar Sadayo
Ali's Sister

Adam El Hagar
Ali's Brother
Sahar Gadel-Kareem
Ali's Sister
Louis Hammond

Shobu Kapoor
Home Office Official

Chris Langham
Mr. Paul
Christopher Simon
Dick
Kevin Wainwright
Sean

Felix Dexter
Policeman 1
Khaled El Hagar
Khaled El Hagar, Amanda McKenzie Stuart
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