‘ Matar’ ( Abu rabee’), the previous struggler and present billionaire returns after an absence for 20 years. During that period, most people thought he was martyred. He returns to settle his accounts with his old friends, and to build his financial empire in a mysterious atmosphere enveloping his resources. Through him, we learn about a net of acquaintances which he could interweave so skillfully and smartly despite his social contradictions, yet they all agree on one aim-seeking individual survival in a hard time.
Like a spider, ‘ Matar’ succeeds in having a firm grip of all who fall in his web, and uses them to achieve his aims for doubling his claimed wealth, and for takinghis revenge from the old friends,
as well as the previous thoughts and great values which he strived long for, while they cruelly let him down, and made of him a man with one slogan: “all means are justified for achieving the aims.”
This happens in a time which witnesses critical changes after September 11th which put us in the face of the new world order of which ‘ Matar’ has become a part. When the Iraqi war is ignited, ‘ Matar’ disappears suddenly leaving a great void in his imaginary projects which he had started at home.
After the fall of Baghdad and the coming of the business for rebuilding it, we see ‘Matar’ again as one of them.
He is ‘ Matar’ the absent-present, who always returns in a new guise that suits all times and conditions.

By: Reem Hanna.
Directed by: Haytham Haqi
Cast: Jamal Sulaiman, Amal Arafeh, Sulaf Fawakherji, Samar Sami, Saleem Sabri, Yara Sabri, Jihan Abd Al-Azeem, Salma Al Masri, Sabah Obeid, Abdulmne’m A’maeiri, Sulaf Me’mar, Abdulhadi Alsabbagh, Shukran Murtaja, Mohammed Khair Aljarrah, and others