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Synopsis

Arabic-language Drama. While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy (Zain Al Rafeea) sues his parents (Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef) for neglect.

Content elements

• Frequent, sometimes aggressive use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions; infrequent use of sexual slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence in a domestic context – no blood, little detail
• Brief breast nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use; infrequent portrayals of prescription substance use and drug manufacturing – some detail

Thematic elements

• The impact and cycle of poverty
• Statelessness
• The struggle to survive

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language and mature subject matter involving child neglect

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