The Traveller

Love passion responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt In 1948 Hassan Khaled El Nabawy is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura Cyrine Abdelnour a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the harbor The message is from Nouras fiancé but when Hassan sees her he acts on an impulse and by the end of the day hes slept with Noura In 1973 Hassan crosses paths with Noura again her brother is in the hospital and Hassan happens to meet Nadia the beautiful womans daughter who he may have fathered And in 2001 elderly Hassan now played by Omar Sharif visits Cairo and meets Ali Nadias son and both are taken aback at the similarities between them