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Shawky reflects on the construction of identities based on national narratives that rely on myths, mythologies, folk tales, or legends. The film uses the ruins of Pompeii, as well as the Nile in Upper-Egypt, as a backdrop, while actors, wearing ceramic or papier-mâché masks, echo the vanished people of a city that bore influences from the Greek, Roman and Pharaonic antique worlds. They are in constant movement throughout the film dancing to the music Shawky composed and reminding us that even what we perceive as everlasting, is in constant flux.