keywords: egypt, illegal drugs, illegal narcotics, drug abuse, drug use, street addicts, hospital, insane asylum
Synopsis: The horrific consequences of hard-core drug addiction in 1930's Egypt is depicted and the torments of the local street addicts. (read more...)
Shows contrasts between the physical and mental fitness of police recruits and laborers to the depravity of drug addicts, some of whom are shown sniffing narcotics.
Shows the torments of a woman addict deprived of drugs, including close-ups of addicts on the streets, in a prison, and in a hospital, where one addict has an attack.
Scenes from an insane asylum, along with more prison and hospital scenes.
Reenactment of the detection and capture of smugglers who tried to conceal a shipment of hashish on the sides of their camels.
