Karim Saleh

Based on two years of exhaustive research, The Hamburg Cell was the first major television dramatisation of the September 11 plot

Returning to the Egyptian city of Luxor, an aid worker is haunted by the past when she crosses paths with the archaeologist she once loved.

A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared—the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya’s conspiracy theories overly paranoid—but nothing in Asya’s world is as it seems. Asya’s life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that arise simultaneously out of everyday life.

A bohemian couple's obsession with a sadistic gang ignites hidden desires, pushing them to question gender roles, monogamy, and sexual norms.