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THE TRASHBOY

EL WAD SAYYED EL ZABBAL

Social issues - Development 2022

SAYED, an 8-year-old boy,
living in Garbage City,
dreams to become a female bellydancer.
For that to happen, he needs to deliver
a duck, a pig, and a rat.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Social issues, Fantasy, Drama
- Countries
- LEBANON, EGYPT
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Synopsis
- SAYED, an 8-year-old boy, the son of a garbage collector, is living in extreme poverty in Garbage City. He has a dream to become a bellydancer . One day he meets a sorcerer who can make the dream come true if the boy steals the duck of the oldest lady in town, the pinkiest pig, and a rat born on a Saturday, all in less than 48 hours. SARA, a 28-year-old belly dancer, is living a hard life, too. She is married to a drug dealer and pregnant. Her husband imprisons her at home. The house catches fire one day. She escapes from the window of the bathroom, falls down in a garbage container, and loses consciousness. She wakes up at the hospital, where she learns that, although they saved her life and delivered her, the baby was stolen. After her ordeal, SARA goes back to her dancing career. She meets SAYED one day and becomes friends with him. She tells him that no one should know that he is coming to the nightclub where she works because of his young age.
  SAYED agreed and started coming to the night club every night to watch SARA and learn from her. SAYED manages to get the duck, the pig, and the rat to the sorcerer, who tells him that his dream will come true, but this will come at a high cost. The sorcerer, however, does not reveal what the boy will lose. On that night, on his way to the nightclub, SAYED gets hit by a car. He loses consciousness and goes into a coma. The doctors discover that SAYED is actually a girl. No one from the garbage city reaches out or checks up on him. When SAYED wakes up, he discovers that he has lost his sight and has become blind. An unknown old woman asks to adopt this blind girl. She takes her in and teaches her oriental dance. The old woman gives her a new stage name : SARA. SARA recovers and regains her sight ten years later. She looks in the mirror, and we discover that actually : SAYED and SARA are the same person.