Screenplay by: Amal Hanna
Directed by: Hatem Ali

Happiness seems impossible.
Pain is here, ever present. You must drink it one drop after another.
You can't escape passing through the desert of loneliness—through enormously grievous losses.
Death is the last drop for taming us.

A social drama work in 30 T.V. episodes. It relates a life-story of Ishtar in her adolescence age where her name becomes a curse on her and because of it her parents get divorced. After she succeeds in secondary school examinations, and although she gets high grades, she enters a commercial intermediate institute just to draw attention to herself. After her grand mother—who used to live with her—dies she inherits her house. Then she falls in love with Ramez, her first love who traps her to give the possession of the house to him. Then he sells the house to strangers. when she meets the new owners she is shocked and breaks down and is taken to a mad house. Her ant, who has a great fortune which inherited from her husband after his death, takes her to Paris for a year. There, she introduces her to the world of art for her pretty voice. After Ishtar is cured and becomes famous in the Arab world her ant decides to return to Syria to settle there. The world turns with Ishtar to meet Ramez again. He loves her greatly as a fan of a famous singer while she is Istar, his first victim—to be continued.

The first T.V. drama-epic relating the story of the Palestinian wound extending all along the Arab and human conscience through the life of a rural Palestinian family that moves restlessly between the refined, the far, and the epics since the thirties of the last century and up to the end of the sixties.
This work depicts the struggle of this family against poverty, destitution and the dominance of the traditional leadership on one hand, and the policies of the British mandate aiming at dispossessing the Arabs of their lands in compliance with Belfor promise on the other hand, passing through the Palestinian countryside revolution in the thirties (1936-1939), and the efforts to go past the affliction on the particular and general sides, until June war and its effects, and resisting the occupation inside the occupied homeland.
Away from the slogans and the rhetorical styles and the simple romantic handling, this work presents a factual human handling, and introduces complex human patterns different in their responses to the general circumstances, picturing their dreams, ambitions, victories, disappointments, changes and struggle for survival and resurrection from the ashes of the defeats and calamities. It introduces patterns receiving their afflictions from the unseen, and giving out their share of sacrifices, carrying with them the burden of the extending memory where the particular welds with the general, and the subjective with the human.

A social drama work in thirty episodes. It is a story of four brothers who are different in every respect. They are different in their temperaments, manners and in their attitudes towards life and its hard questions. From time to time, their destinies get closer or become farther. In spite of its diversity of events, this drama tells us the story of love, hate, duty, freedom, responsibility and the diverse efforts for control and dominance in the same family. It emphasizes the fact that the family is still the base and foundation of our economy, especially in our present Arab situation where voices have been raised warning against globalization which threatens to make us lose our identity.

Family relation have most certainly changed; its members are no longer attached as they used to be. This drama tends to tell us that with the recess in the fathers’ domination, children must feel more freedom. This freedom, however, should not make them run far away, but it rather should make their attachment to their family look an optional choice and not an obligatory duty.

A drama work of diverse social subjects, screened through special comedy frame based mainly on making fun of social degeneration, lying, and hot life-contradictions, and also on deep meditation over human and establishment behavior etc.
This dram contains 30 T.V. episodes; each episode contains two spotlights or more; each spotlight deals with a funny T.V. drama subject of a comic material that may make sometimes a black comedy, or even a tragedy which may promote the viewers’ taste or draw their attention to the social flaws in general, and in themselves in particular.
This work contains a big number of diverse ideas, due to the diversity of the number of writers. It also contains a number of Syrian and Arab stars. It, however, stresses the notion that the importance in acting does not lie in the size of the role, but rather in the ability of a certain actor to enrich the character which he plays.