“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Rebelling against the constraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine. Her encounters with the other students intensify her search for identity. She comes to find fulfilment not in isolation, but through her relationshi