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El-Rifae’s work penetrates to the depths a slew of important themes from justice to public space, Women’s resistance to violent sociocultural patriarchal systems and state control, meticulously interweaving these together in a narrative of solidarity and resistance.

What begins as an interesting, methodical meditation on this elderly couple and their farm, invaded by the suspenseful threat of this duplicitous man, becomes a rote thriller that repeats scenes ad nauseam.