Beautifully cast, excellent character depictions & story, made me want to visit Cairo immediately (despite its evident problems). Clarkson deserves an Oscar nomination & Siddig was great, too. Woman arrives in Cairo alone, expecting to meet up with her husband who works for the UN but was called to Gaza. She is on her own, waiting for him to arrive. She is a "mensch," thrown into a situation she wasn't expecting. My husband was equally crazy about the film. Loved the music but unfortunately it seems that the soundtrack doesn't include the Egyptian music that was part of the film.