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Duraid Lahham has recently finished the script for his new
movie al-Abaa al-Sighar (The Young Father). The film
is based in modern Damascus, starring Lahham as an honest
and uncorrupted police officer, who is married to a
hard-working hotel clerk and has four little children. To
improve their income, he works part-time as a taxi driver,
and enrolls in university to obtain a degree in law, hoping
that it would raise his salary as a police officer. His wife
dies young, due to illness, and Lahham is forced to drop out
of university to make ends meet for his family. His
children, in funny and mischievous ways, start to work
part-time to help him raise money, and end up renting a room
in their house to a visitor from Egypt.
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