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LITTLE DREAMS is the story of Ghareeb (Mervat Amin), a 13-year-old Egyptian boy whose father died a heroic death in the 1956 Suez Canal crisis when Ghareeb was still an infant. He now lives with his mother in Suez during the period leading up to the outbreak of the 1967 Six Day War between Egypt and Israel. Falling on difficult times, his mother sends him to work at the printing shop of one of her suitors, a pompous and overbearing man who treats Ghareeb badly. Ghareeb then befriends one of his father's former colleagues and secretly prints up the man's political tracts. When his mother marries the abusive print shop owner, Ghareeb finds a father figure in Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Ghareeb joins the local resistance, convinced that victory is near. However, his idealism is destroyed during the war along with his home, his town and his dreams for the future.
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