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A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?

Top Cast

  • Hiam Abbass

    Hiam Abbass

    Eftikhar

  • Raya Khatib

    Raya Khatib

    Ruba

  • Manal Awad

    Manal Awad

    Safia

  • Mirna Sakhla

    Mirna Sakhla

    Zeinab

  • Maisa Abd Elhadi

    Maisa Abd Elhadi

    Wedad

  • Dina Shuhaiber

    Dina Shuhaiber

    Salma

  • Victoria Balitska

    Victoria Balitska

    Christine

  • Reem Talhami

    Reem Talhami

    Wafaa

  • Raneem Al Daoud

    Raneem Al Daoud

    Mariam

Overview

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?

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