Oily, exotic, violent and hopeless, Crime in Cairo is a thriller in which a murder that the paternalistic scheme calls out to be "passionate" is gradually revealed as something less simple in the eyes of Noredin, a policeman who knows the mechanisms of the system of life and survival in a city that wobbles from its foundations, but a policeman who knows that we must get out of that mechanism, that there is something beyond the purchase and sale of everything - witnesses, guilty parties, of innocents - in a police system that is nothing but a reflection of the enormous corruption that prevails in the Egypt of 2011, at the beginning of the Arab spring